PYAR CHAND Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND ANR.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BY this common order, Crl. M. No. 10687 -M of 2011 and Crl. M. No. 10691 -M of 2011 shall be decided together wherein prayer is for quashing of FIR No. 449 dated 2.7.2003 under Sections 148/149/452 IPC Police Station Sector 5, Panchkula, District Panchkula and FIR No. 18 dated 13.1.2009 under Sections 420/450/467/468/471/120 -B IPC registered at Police Station Sector -5, Panchkula, District Panchkula and subsequent proceedings arising therefrom on the basis of compromise entered into between the parties.

(2.) THE FIRs in question were got registered by the parties herein against each other. However, the matter has been compromised due to the intervention of the respectables of the area. Compromise deed dated 24.2.2011 has already been placed on record to this effect in both the petitions.

(3.) THE Full Bench of this Court, in the case of Kulwinder Singh and Ors. v. State of Punjab and Anr., 2007 (3) RCR (Cri) 1052 has held that the compromise, in a modern society, is the sine qua non of harmony and orderly behaviour. It is the soul of justice and if the power under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is used to enhance such a compromise which, in turn, enhances the social amity and reduces friction, then it truly is ''finest hour of justice ''. Disputes which have their genesis not only in matrimonial discord but others as well, such compromise deserves to be accepted. It is further held as under: