JUDGMENT :

(Rakesh Kainthla, J.)

The petitioner has filed the present petition for quashing FIR No. 72/2019, dated 16.8.2019 for the commission of offences punishable under Sections 403, 407, 420, 465, 467, 468 and 471 read with Section 34 of IPC. The matter was compromised between the parties and the statement of the informant was recorded on 11.9.2023, in which he stated that the matter had been compromised with the intervention of respectable persons of the society. The informant has no objection in case the FIR and consequent proceedings arising out of the FIR are quashed.

2. I have heard Mr. Amit Singh Chandel and Mr. Abhinav Mehta, learned counsel for the petitioners, Mr Prashant Sen, learned Deputy Advocate General for respondent no.1/State, and Mr Janak Raj, learned counsel for respondent no. 2.

3. Mr. Amit Singh Chandel, learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that since the matter has been compromised between the parties, therefore, the FIR be quashed. He has placed reliance upon the judgments of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Nikhil Merchant Vs. CBI 2008 (9) SCC 677, Gian Singh Vs. State of Punjab 2012 (10) SCC 303, Narinder Singh and others Vs. State of Punjab 2014 (6)