IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM No.M 29838 of 2010 Date of decision: 1.12.2010 Uvinder Sharma ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Mr.SS Tiwana, Advocate for the petitioner Mr.KD Sachdeva, Addl.AG, Punjab Mr.Arvind Singh, Advocate for respondent No.2. *** Ram Chand Gupta, J.(Oral) The present petition has been filed by petitioner Uvinder Singh under Section 482 Cr.P.C. seeking quashing of FIR No.54 dated 24.6.2004 (Annexure P-1) registered under Section 3 of SC & ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and Section 506 IPC at Police Station Amargarh, District Sangrur and all consequential proceedings arising therefrom in view of the compromise Annexure P-2 arrived at between both the parties. Reply filed on behalf of respondent No.2 is taken on record. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and have gone through the whole record carefully. It has been contended by counsel for the parties that the dispute has since been amicably settled due to intervention of respectable persons and relatives of both the parties, as they are co-employees. CRM No.M 29838 of 2010 -2- In reply filed by way of affidavit of respondent No.2, the factum of compromise is admitted. As per the order of this Court, both the parties were also directed to appear before the trial Court. Learned trial Court after recording the statements of both the parties sent the report to the effect that compromise arrived at between the parties as voluntarily one. In appropriate cases FIR can be quashed on the basis of compromise by exercising power under Section 482 Cr.P.C., even if the offences are not compoundable. It was so held by Full Bench of this Court in the case of Kulwinder Singh v. State of Punjab, 2007(3) RCR (Crl.) 1052. Since the parties have amicably settled the matter and compromise has been effected between them due to intervention of the respectable persons and relatives, in the interest of harmonious relations between the parties, who are the co-employees, the present petition is allowed and the impugned FIR No.54 dated 24.6.2004 (Annexure P-1) registered under Section 3 of SC & ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and Section 506 IPC at Police Station Amargarh, District Sangrur alongwith all consequential proceedings qua petitioner –Uvinder Sharma is, hereby, quashed. December 01, 2010 (RAM CHAND GUPTA) gsv JUDGE