IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Criminal Misc. No. M-14877 of 2010 (O&M) Date of Decision: July 26, 2011 Pritpal Singh alias Happy ... Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ... Respondent CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr.Sanjay Gupta, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr.Sudhir Nehra, Additional Advocate General, Punjab for respondent – State. Mr.Rajeev Gupta, Advocate, for respondent No.2. NAWAB SINGH J.(ORAL) By this petition under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, the petitioner seeks quashing of First Information Report (for short 'FIR) No.40 dated March 17th, 2004, registered under Section 420 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code (for short 'IPC') at Police Station Mukerian, District Hoshiarpur. Quashing has been sought on the ground that parties have compromised the matter. The compromise-deed (Annexure P- 2) has been placed on record. Indeed, the dispute between the parties was of personal nature. In view of this, there should not be any impediment in allowing the parties to compromise the matter. Support to this view can be had from the authority 'Madan Mohan Abbot Vs. State of Punjab' 2008 (2) RCR (Criminal) 429, wherein, Hon'ble Supreme Court has ruled that in such type of cases, where the dispute is of personal nature, Court should ordinarily, accept the compromise. In view of above, petition is accepted. Consequently, FIR No.40 dated March 17th, 2004, registered under Section 420 read with Section 34 IPC at Police Station Mukerian, District Hoshiarpur and subsequent proceedings arising therefrom, are hereby quashed. July 26, 2011 ( NAWAB SINGH ) gian JUDGE