IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH **** Criminal Misc. No.50428-M of 2006 Date of Decision:17.01.2008 Rajesh Kumar and others .....Petitioners Vs. State of Punjab and another .....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BINDAL Present:- Ms. Upasana Gupta, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. Anter Singh Brar, DAG, Punjab. **** RAJESH BINDAL, J. The prayer made in the present petition is for quashing of FIR No.139 dated 16.9.2004 registered at Police Station, Salem Tabri, Ludhiana, under Section 452, 323, 427, 324, 148 and 149 IPC and consequent proceedings thereto on the basis of compromise entered into between the parties. Learned counsel for the petitioners has placed on record an affidavit of the complainant admitting the fact that the dispute between the parties who are neighbours has been compromised with the intervention of the respectable members of the Panchayat. The signatures on the affidavit submitted by respondent No.2 has been tallied with the signatures in the investigation file with the police. Reliance has been placed upon a Five Judge Bench judgment of this Court in Kulwinder Singh v. State of Punjab, 2007(3) Law Herald (P&H) 2225. Once the matter has been compromised between the parties, no useful purpose will be served by proceeding with the prosecution. Accordingly, considering the law laid down by this Court in Kulwinder Singh's case (supra), FIR No.139 dated 16.9.2004 registered at Police Station, Salem Tabri, Ludhiana and consequent proceedings thereto are quashed. The petition is disposed of. January 17, 2008 ( RAJESH BINDAL ) renu JUDGE