GAGANDEEP SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This petition has been filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. for quashing of FIR No.57 dated 12.04.2014 registered under Sections 406, 498-A of Indian Penal Code (for short 'IPC') at Police Station Civil Lines, Batala, District Gurdaspur on the basis of compromise (Annexure P-2) arrived at between the parties before Mediation and Conciliation Centre of this Court.

(2.) The marriage between Petitioner-Gagandeep Singh and complainant-respondent No.2-Ravinder Kaur was solemnized on 29.07.2006. Out of said wedlock, one son was also born. After some time, due to temperamental differences that arose between the parties, they started living separately. Thereafter, the aforesaid FIR was lodged by respondent No.2.

(3.) Learned counsel for both the parties submit that the statements of the parties with regard to compromise have already been recorded in a petition filed under Section 13-B of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (for short 'the Act').