MANJIT KAUR Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PETITIONERS have filed this petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 for quashing of the FIR No. 79 dated 30.9.2010, under Section 406, 420, 468, 120-B of the Indian Penal Code ('IPC' for short), registered at Police Station Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar (Nawanshahr) (Annexure P-1) and all the consequential proceedings arising therefrom in view of the compromise dated 18.12.2010 (Annexure P-2) arrived at between the parties.

(2.) LEARNED counsel for the petitioners as well as respondent No.2 have submitted that the parties have amicably settled their dispute. Vide order dated 9.2.2011, parties were directed to appear before the trial Court and the trial court was directed to record the statements of the parties and submit its report qua the genuineness of the compromise. In pursuance to the said order, the trial Court has submitted its report that the compromise effected between the parties was genuine.

(3.) HON 'ble the Apex Court in the case of Merchant vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and another JT 2008 (9) SC 192 in para Nos. 23 and 24 has held as under:-