SUKHWINDER SINGH SODHI Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PRAYER made in the petition is for quashing of Criminal Complaint No. 15 dated 11.6.2012 titled 'Jagtar Singh versus Sukhwinder Singh and others' instituted by respondent No. 2 -Jagtar Singh under Sections 3 and 4 of the Scheduled Castes and Schedule Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and Sections 120 -B, 506, 34 IPC, and for setting aside the order dated 6.4.2013 passed by Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Sangrur, whereby only the petitioners were summoned for the aforementioned offences.

(2.) THE quashing to the aforementioned complaint and setting aside of the summoning order are sought on the ground that the parties have since settled the matter amicably.

(3.) SOME of the offences alleged against the petitioners are non -compoundable. However, when the parties have amicably resolved their differences and settled the matter and in that regard the parties appeared before the summoning Court and confirmed the factum of compromise, this Court is of the considered view that the ends of justice would be amply met if the complaint filed by respondent No. 2 and all the proceedings taken thereunder are set aside in so far as they relate to the petitioners.