In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh Criminal Misc. No.M-4358 of 2009 Date of decision: 16.2.2009 Jagsir Chand and others ......Petitioners Versus State of Punjab .......Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE SABINA Present: Mr. P.C.Suman, Advocate, for the petitioners. **** SABINA, J. The petitioners have filed this petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for quashing of impugned order dated 4.12.2004 (Annexure P-4) passed by Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Nawanshehar declaring the petitioners as proclaimed offenders in case FIR No.115 dated 29.5.2001 under Sections 323, 325, 324, 148, 149 of the Indian Penal Code (“IPC”- for short), registered at Police Station Banga, District Nawanshahr. Learned counsel for the petitioners has submitted that the petitioners had to go to America as Rattan Chand, father of petitioners No.1 and 2 and husband of petitioner No.3, was attacked by robbers and they were given emergency visa. Now the matter had been compromised. The accused have been acquitted Criminal Misc. No.M-4358 of 2009 -2- of the charge framed against them vide order dated 20.12.2008 (Annexure P-5). The petitioners were declared proclaimed offenders vide order dated 4.12.2004 (Annexure P-4). A perusal of order dated 20.12.2008 (Annexure P-5) reveals that the co-accused Gurwinder and Sukhdev Ram have been acquitted of the charge framed against them on the basis of compromise effected between the parties. Since the petitioners were declared proclaimed offenders way back in the year 2004 and have not surrendered so far, no ground for quashing of the impugned order dated 4.12.2004 (Annexure P-4) is made out. Accordingly, this petition is dismissed. (SABINA) JUDGE February 16, 2009 anita