IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Criminal Misc. No. M-14906 of 2011 (O&M) Date of Decision: August 09, 2011 Malwinder Singh and others ... Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and another ... Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr.A.K.Walia, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr.J.S.Bhullar, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab for respondent – State. NAWAB SINGH J.(ORAL) By this petition under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, the petitioners seek quashing of First Information Report (for short 'FIR) No.119 dated October 12th, 2010, registered under Section 379 of the Indian Penal Code (for short 'IPC') in Police Station Basti Bawa Khel, District Jalandhar, on the basis of compromise. By order dated May 16th, 2011, Nirmaljit Kaur, J. directed the parties to appear before the trial Court and the trial Court was directed to record the statements of the parties. In compliance with the same, Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Jalandhar recorded the statements of the parties, whereby, they stated that they have compromised the matter. Compromise-deed (Annexure P2/T) has also been placed on record. In the circumstances, there cannot be any embargo in allowing the parties to compromise the matter as this Court is of the opinion that no useful purpose would be served by allowing the criminal proceedings to continue against the petitioners. In view of above, petition is accepted. Consequently, FIR No.119 dated October 12th, 2010, registered under Section 379 IPC in Police Station Basti Bawa Khel, District Jalandhar and subsequent proceedings arising therefrom, are hereby quashed. August 09, 2011 ( NAWAB SINGH ) gian JUDGE