Judgment:
CRM No.M-24094 of 2013 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl.
Misc.
No.M- 24094 of 2013(O&M) Date of Decision: October 8, 2013.
Ankur Singh Kang and others .....PETITIONER(s) Versus State of Punjab and another .....RESPONDENT (s) CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Mr.Nripjeet Singh Mehrok, Advocate, for the petitioneRs.Mr.Deepak Garg, AAG, Punjab.
MRS.G.K.Mann, Advocate, for respondent no.2.
***** 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.200 dated 29.09.2012, under Sections 498A/406/506/342/34 IPC, registered at police station City Gurdaspur, District Gurdaspur, Annexure P1, and all other consequential proceedings arising therefrom on the basis of compromise, Annexure P2, having been entered between the parties.
I have heard learned counsel for the parties and have gone through the record.
Singh Omkar 2013.10.10 15:37 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document High Court, Chandigarh CRM No.M-24094 of 2013 2 It has been stated by learned counsel for the petitioner that dispute between the parties was matrimonial in nature, which has since been settled and parties have started living together.
Respondent No.2 – complainant has also appeared in person with her counsel and filed reply by way of affidavit admitting the factum of compromise and stated that she is living happily with her husband i.e., petitioner no.1 and hence, she is having no objection if the FIR and consequential proceedings are quashed.
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.
As the dispute was matrimonial in nature, which has since been settled amicably, in the interest of harmonious relations between the parties, the present petition is allowed and the impugned FIR No.200 dated 29.09.2012, under Sections 498A/406/506/342/34 IPC, registered at police station City Gurdaspur, District Gurdaspur, Annexure P1 alongwith all consequential proceedings qua petitioners –Ankur Singh Kang, Jasvir Singh and Mohinder Kaur is, hereby, quashed.
( RAM CHAND GUPTA ) October 8, 2013.
JUDGE ‘om’ Singh Omkar 2013.10.10 15:37 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document High Court, Chandigarh