IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. M-28364 of 2011(O&M) Date of Decision: November 07, 2011 Anil Gupta ... Petitioner Versus State of U.T. Chandigarh and others ... Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr.Rajan Malhotra, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr.Rakesh Kumar Nagpal, Advocate for UT, Chandigarh. Mr.Vivek Rattan, Advocate for respondent No.3. NAWAB SINGH J.(ORAL) Anil Gupta has filed this petition under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, seeking quashing of First Information Report (for short 'FIR) No.290 dated September 02nd, 2004, registered under Sections 181 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code (for short 'IPC') in Police Station Sector- 36, Chandigarh, on the basis of compromise (Annexure P2). 2. Learned counsel appearing for complainant/ respondent No.3 has admitted the compromise (Annexure P2) having arrived at between the parties. He states that the dispute has been amicably resolved with the intervention of the respectables. It was a dispute of personal nature between the parties. A matter of civil nature was also compromised between the parties in Permanent Lok Adalat, U.T.Chandigarh as per order dated May 18th, 2011 (Annexure P3). 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. 3. In view of above, petition is accepted. Consequently, FIR No.290 dated September 02nd, 2004, registered under Sections 181 and 420 IPC in Police Station Sector-36, Chandigarh and subsequent proceedings arising therefrom, are hereby quashed. November 07, 2011 ( NAWAB SINGH ) `gian' JUDGE