JUDGMENT :

Sandeep Sharma, J.

By way of instant petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, prayer has been made on behalf of the petitioner for quashing of FIR No. 0116 of 2016, dated 6.6.2016 under Section 279 of IPC and Section 187 of the Motor Vehicles Act, registered at police Station Rampur Bushahr, District Shimla, Himachal Pradesh as well as consequent proceedings pending adjudication in the Court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rampur Bushahr, District Shimla, H.P., on the basis of the amicable settlement arrived inter se parties.

2. Precisely, the facts of the case as emerge from the record are that the FIR, sought to be quashed in the instant proceedings, came to be lodged at the behest of respondent No.4/ complainant namely, Sh. Bhupesh Kumar, who alleged that on 6.6.2016, while he was coming back from Bithal Rampur in his car bearing registration No. HP-25-C-0990, Alto car bearing registration No. HP-26-A-1322 being driven by the petitioner/accused in rash and negligent manner came from opposite direction and hit his car, as a consequence of which, huge loss has been caused to his vehicle. Though, police after completion of the inv