GURMEJ SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS petition has been filed under Section 482 CrP.C. praying for quashing of FIR No. 27 dated 26.4.2010 (Annexure -P. 1) registered for the offences under Sections 323, 324 and 34 IPC and Section 326 IPC, which was added later on, at Police Station Old Shalley, District Gurdaspur and all subsequent proceedings arising therefrom in view of the compromise (Annexure -P. 2).

(2.) THE FIR has been registered on the statement of complainant -Ram Nath on the allegations that the accused -petitioners attacked him and his brother and caused injuries with their respective weapons when they were harvesting their standing wheat crops and the accused restrained them from harvesting the same. Now with intervention of respectable persons of the area, the matter has been amicably compromised between the parties and respondents No. 2 and 3 have no grievance against the petitioners and they do not want to pursue the present FIR.

(3.) LEARNED Assistant Advocate General, Punjab, on instructions from the Investigating Officer and learned counsel for complainant -respondents No. 2 and 3 admit the factum of compromise and submit that in case the parties have indeed settled their dispute, the State would have no objection to the quashing of the FIR in view of the law laid down by the Hon'ble Supreme Court.