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Pritam Singh etc. v. State of Punjab etc.

Punjab & Haryana HC6 Dec 2010CRM-M/30555/2010

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What is this about?

The court allowed a petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. to quash an FIR and consequent proceedings based on a compromise between the parties. Relying on precedents regarding quashing of non-compoundable offences with civil overtones, the court held no useful purpose would be served in continuing the criminal prosecution.

What did the court decide?

FIR No.135 dated 4.8.2010 and consequent proceedings registered thereunder are quashed.

Pritam Singh etc. Vs State of Punjab etc. — Cheating and Forgery | Punjab & Haryana HC (2010)

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Crl. Misc. No. M- 30555 of 2010 (O&M)

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

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Crl. Misc. No. M- 30555 of 2010 (O&M) Date of Decision : December 6, 2010

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Pritam Singh and others

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........Petitioners

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Versus

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State of Punjab and another ........Respondents

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CORAM : HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE SABINA

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Present : Mr. Jagjit Singh, Advocate, for the petitioners.

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Mr. S.S. Bhinder, Senior Addl. A.G. Punjab with Mr. Amandeep Singh Rai, AAG, Punjab.

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Mr. Abinashi Singh, Advocate, for respondent No.2.

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Respondent No.2 in person.

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SABINA, J.

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Petitioners have filed this petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for quashing of FIR No.135 dated 4.8.2010, under Sections 452/324,427,148,149 of Indian Penal Code (in short 'IPC') registered at Police Station Sultanpur, District Kapurthala and consequent proceedings arising therefrom on the basis of compromise dated 20.8.2010 (Annexure P-2).

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Learned counsel for the petitioners has submitted that both the parties had lodged criminal proceedings against each other. Now with the intervention of the relatives and friends the parties have arrived at a

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compromise.

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Respondent No.2, who is present in person along with his counsel, has admitted the factum of compromise between the parties. Respondent No.2 has also admitted the contents of his affidavit (Annexure P-2) and has stated that he has no objection if the FIR is ordered to be quashed.

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As per the Full Bench judgment of this Court in Kulwinder Singh and others vs. State of Punjab, 2007 (3) RCR (Criminal) 1052, High Court has power under Section 482 Cr.P.C. to allow the compounding of non-compoundable offence and quash the prosecution where the High Court felt that the same was required to prevent the abuse of the process of any Court or to otherwise secure the ends of justice. This power of quashing is not confined to matrimonial disputes alone.

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Hon'ble the Apex Court in the case of Nikhil Merchant vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and another JT 2008 (9) SC 192 in para Nos.26 and 24 has held as under :-

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“26. In the instant case, the disputes between the Company and the Bank have been set at rest on the basis of the compromise arrived at by them whereunder the dues of the Bank have been cleared and the Bank does not appear to have any further claim against the Company. What, however, remains is the fact that certain documents were alleged to have been created by the appellant herein in order to avail of credit facilities beyond the limit to which the Company was entitled. The dispute involved herein has overtones of a civil dispute with certain criminal facts. The question which is required to be answered in this case is

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whether the power which independently lies with this Court to quash the criminal proceedings pursuant to the compromise arrived at, should at all be exercised?

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On an overall view of the facts as indicated hereinabove and keeping in mind the decision of the Court in B.S. Joshi's case (supra) and the compromise arrived at between the Company and the Bank as also clause 11 of the consent terms filed in the suit filled by the Bank, we are satisfied that this is a fit case where technicality should not be allowed to stand in the way in the quashing of the criminal proceedings, since, in our view, the continuance of the same after the compromise arrived at between the parties would be a futile exercise.”

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Since the parties have arrived at a compromise and have decided to live in peace, no useful purpose would be served in allowing the criminal proceedings to continue.

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Accordingly, the present petition is allowed. The FIR No.135 dated 4.8.2010, under Sections 452/324,427,148,149 IPC, registered at Police Station Sultanpur, District Kapurthala and consequent proceedings, arising therefrom, are quashed.

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(SABINA)

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JUDGE

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December 6, 2010 Anand

Pritam Singh etc. v. State of Punjab etc.

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