Crl. Revision. No. 1661 of 2004 -1 - IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Crl. Revision No. 1661 of 2004 Date of Decision: 24.8.2011. Karnail Singh and another .......Petitioners Vs. Dalbir Singh and another ......Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE SABINA Present: Mr. B.S.Sidhu, Advocate for Mr. I.S.Brar, Advocate for the petitioners. None for respondent No.1 Mr. G.S.Brar, Asstt. A.G. Punjab for respondent No.2. ..... SABINA, J. Petitioners along with Jasvinder Singh, Sagru and Karamjit Singh were tried for an offence under Sections 326, 325, 324, 323, 148, 149 of the Indian Penal Code ('IPC' for short) in a complaint filed by Dalbir Singh. The trial court vide judgment and order dated 24.7.2003 convicted and sentenced the petitioners and other co-accused for offence under Sections 148/326/325/324/323/149 IPC. Aggrieved by the same, petitioners along with the other co-accused preferred an appeal. Vide judgment dated 14.7.2004, the appeal filed by the petitioners and other co-accused was dismissed by the appellate court. Hence, the present petition. The case of the complainant in brief is that his father had got land measuring 9 Bighas 12 Biswas situated in village Crl. Revision. No. 1661 of 2004 -2 - Chathe Sekhwan from the government on deposit of `. 4017/-. Mutation was sanctioned in favour of the father of the complainant and he came in possession of the land after its allotment. The accused wanted to grab the said land forcibly. A civil suit was filed by the father of the complainant wherein a demarcation report was submitted in favour of the plaintiff. On 8.11.1997, all the accused armed with deadly weapons had attacked the complainant party and had caused injuries on their person. Karamjit Singh had filed Criminal Revision No. 1571 of 2004 and Jasvinder Singh along with Sagru had filed Criminal Revision No. 1620 of 2004 challenging their conviction and sentence by the courts below. The said revision petitions were allowed by this court vide order dated 06.3.2009 wherein it was held as under:- “Now, during the pendency of the revision petition, parties have arrived at a compromise which has been placed on record as Annexure P1 and the same is duly signed by the complainant-Dalbir Singh as well as injured-Jaswant Singh. Injured Piara Singh has since died. A perusal of the compromise reveals that now with the intervention of respectables of village, relatives and friends, parties doe not want to pursue the case as no dispute exits between them. Parties want to live in peace in future. The complainant party would not pursue the case in this Court, if the compromise is accepted by the Court. Affidavits of Dalbir Singh and Jaswant Singh have also been placed on record as Annexure P2 and P3. It has been stated in the affidavits that as per the compromise, the deponents requested that the revision petition pending in this Crl. Revision. No. 1661 of 2004 -3 - Court be accepted and decided. As per compromise, they do not want to puruse with the case. Keeping in view the above facts, the present revision deserve to be allowed. Accordingly, the judgments of the courts below are set aside and the petitioners are acquitted of the charge framed against him.” Since the parties had arrived at a compromise and the revision petitions filed by the co-accused have been allowed, the present revision petition also deserves to be allowed. In the revision petitions filed by Karamjit Singh, Jasvinder Singh and Sagru, the complainant was represented by his counsel and the factum of compromise between the parties was not disputed. File of Criminal Revision No. 1571 of 2004 was summoned. A perusal of the compromise (Annexure P-1) reveals that same is duly signed by the present petitioners also. Accordingly, this petition is allowed. The judgments of the courts below are set aside and the petitioners are acquitted of the charges framed against them. (SABINA) JUDGE August 24, 2011 Gurpreet