IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. M-1346 of 2011 (O&M) Date of Decision : 25.7.2011. Satbir Singh ...... Petitioner Versus State of Punjab & another ...... Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr. P.S. Ahluwalia, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. J.S. Bhullar, AAG, Punjab. Mr. Sagar Deswal, Advocate, for respondent No.2. NAWAB SINGH J.(ORAL) By this petition under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, the petitioner seeks quashing of First Information Report No.142 dated June 12th, 2002, registered under Sections 148, 323, 324 and 325 read with Section 149 IPC in Police Station Sirhind, District Fatehgarh Sahib. Grounds pleaded are that the parties have compromised the matter with the intervention of respectables. Per order dated March 29th, 2011 passed by Ritu Bahri. J., Sukhwinder Singh- complainant appeared before the trial Court and made statement that matter has been compromised. Report of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Fatehgarh Sahib has been placed on record. Indeed, the offences, for which the petitioner is facing trial, are non-compoundable. Inspite of that, there can not be any embargo in allowing the parties to compromise the matter in view of the law laid down by the Five Judge Bench's decision of this Court rendered in Kulwinder Singh & others Vs. State of Punjab and another, 2007 (3) RCR (Criminal) 1052. In view of the above, the petition is accepted, FIR No.142 dated June 12th, 2002, registered under Sections 148, 323, 324 and 325 read with Section 149 IPC in Police Station Sirhind, District Fatehgarh Sahib and subsequent proceedings arising therefrom, are hereby quashed. 25.7.2011 (NAWAB SINGH) SN JUDGE