LABH SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS petition has been filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. praying for quashing of FIR No. 46 dated 14.2.2014 (Annexure -P.1) registered for the offence under Section 420 IPC at Police Station Morinda, District Rupnagar 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 -Jaspal Singh on the allegations that the petitioner entered into an agreement to sell his demand notice issued by Punjab State Electricity Board in his favour for electricity connection of motor -pump for Rs. 1,45,000/ -, which the complainant paid him in cash. However, after going through the Demand Notice, he came to know that a condition in para No. 6A of the demand notice has been laid down that the demand notice holder cannot transfer or sell his connection and the demand notice was valid only for three months. In this manner, the petitioner has cheated the complainant and committed fraud of Rs. 1,45,000/ -. Now with the intervention of the respectable persons, a compromise (Annexure -P.2) has been executed in the presence of the witnesses and the complainant has no grievance against the petitioner, as the dispute has been amicably settled.

(3.) LEARNED Assistant Advocate General, Punjab, on instructions from the Investigating Officer admits the factum of compromise and submits 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.