IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc. No. M- 25459 of 2010(O&M) Date of Decision: October 8, 2010. Maninder Singh and others. ...... PETITIONER(s) Versus State of Punjab and another. ...... RESPONDENT(s) CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Mr. N.C.Doabia, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. K.D.Sachdeva, Addl.A.G., Punjab. Mr. B.S.Jaswal, Advocate for respondent No.2-complainant. ***** 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.92, dated 16.07.2009, under Sections 498-A/406 IPC, registered at P.S. Sultanwind, District Amritsar, Annexure P1, and all other consequential proceedings arising therefrom on the basis of compromise, Annexure P2, having been entered into between the parties. CRM No.M-25459 of 2010 It has been stated by learned counsel for the parties that the dispute between the parties is matrimonial in nature and the same has been compromised due to intervention of respectable persons and relatives from both the sides. Respondent No.2 – complainant has also come present in the Court and filed her affidavit admitting the factum of compromise and stating that she is having no objection if the FIR and consequential proceedings are quashed. She has further stated that she has started living together with her husband i.e. petitioner No.1 – Maninder Singh. Petitioner No.1 has also come present in the Court. 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 case 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, the present petition is allowed and the impugned FIR No. 92, dated 16.07.2009, under Sections 498-A/406 IPC, registered at P.S. Sultanwind, District Amritsar, Annexure P1 alongwith all consequential proceedings qua petitioners – Maninder Singh, Pritam Singh, Sukhdev Kaur and Dharminder Singh are, hereby, quashed. ( RAM CHAND GUPTA ) October 8, 2010. JUDGE 'om' 2