IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM No.M 14964 of 2010 Date of decision: 17.12.2010 Surjit Ram and another ...Petitioners Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Ms.Salony Sharma, Advocate for the petitioners Mr.KD Sachdeva, Addl.AG, Punjab *** Ram Chand Gupta, J.(Oral) The present petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for quashing of FIR No.78 dated 11.5.2008 (Annexure P-1) registered under Sections 323, 324, 326 IPC at Police Station Garshankar, District Hoshiarpur and all other consequential proceedings arising therefrom on the basis of compromise Annexure P-2, having been entered into between the parties. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and have gone through the record. The present petition has been filed jointly by complainant, who is petitioner No.1 and accused, who is petitioner No.2. It has been stated by learned counsel for the petitioners that both the parties belong to the same village and the dispute between the parties has since been amicably settled due to intervention of respectable persons and relatives of both the sides. CRM No.M 14964 of 2010 -2- On the direction of this Court, parties appeared before learned trial Court, who recorded the statements of parties and sent the report to the effect that the compromise effected between the parties is a voluntary 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 residents of the same village, the present petition is allowed and the impugned FIR No.78 dated 11.5.2008 (Annexure P-1) registered under Sections 323, 324, 326 IPC at Police Station Garshankar, District Hoshiarpur alongwith all consequential proceedings arising therefrom qua petitioner No.1– Surjit Ram is, hereby, quashed. December 17, 2010 (RAM CHAND GUPTA) gsv JUDGE