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177 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT

CHANDIGARH

CRM-M No.4377 of 2026 Date of Decision: 24.03.2026

Date of Uploading: 25.03.2026

Balkar Singh and others …..Petitioners.

Versus State of Punjab and others

.....Respondents.

CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL

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Present:- Mr. Prashant Bansal, Advocate for the petitioners.

(joined through Video-Conferencing)

Mr. Adhiraj Singh Thind, AAG, Punjab.

Mr. Sumit Dua, Advocate for respondents No.2 to 4.

(joined through Video-Conferencing)

SUMEET GOEL, J.(Oral)

Present petition has been filed under Section 528 of the

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 for quashing of FIR No.395 dated 04.12.2014 under Sections 406, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B IPC, registered at Police Station Tripuri Town, District Patiala, and all subsequent proceedings arising therefrom on the basis of compromises (Annexures P-2

and P-3).

2. On 29.01.2026, the following order was passed by this Court:

“The petitioners has approached this Court seeking quashing of FIR (Annexure P-1) and all consequential

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proceedings emanating therefrom on the basis of a compromise having been effected between the parties.

Learned counsel for the petitioners has submitted that all concerned are parties to the present petition in terms of the dicta of the Division Bench judgment of this Court passed in CRM-M-48043-2023, titled Rakesh Das v. State of Haryana

and another, decided on 12.11.2024.

Notice of motion.

On the strength of advance service of copy of petition;

Mr. Baljinder Singh Sra, Additional AG Punjab causes appearance and accepts notice on behalf of respondent No.1 –

State of Punjab.

Mr. Sumit Dua, Advocate has entered appearance on behalf of respondents No.2 to 4. They ratify the factum of

compromise having been effected between the parties.

The parties are directed to get their statements recorded qua the factum of compromise in the following manner:

(i) The petitioners shall appear before the trial Court/Illaqa Magistrate concerned on 04.02.2026 or any date thereafter as fixed by trial Court/Illaqa Magistrate for recording statements of the petitioners as well as of the complainant qua the factum of compromise. As and when any such appearance is made, the trial Court/Illaqa Magistrate shall do the needful for recording the statements of the parties qua the factum of the compromise. It shall be open to the trial Court/Illaqa Magistrate to either record the statements of the parties by physical process or by video conferencing as deemed appropriate by the trial

Court/Illaqa Magistrate.

(ii) In case the statement is to be recorded by way of video conferencing, the parties concerned shall be duly identified through video conferencing by their respective counsel, subject to the satisfaction of the

Presiding Officer.

(iii) The trial Court/Illaqa Magistrate may also choose to get the statements of the parties recorded through some

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Commissioner, appointed by the Court who would be some Advocate having sufficient standing at the Bar. In case the statement is recorded through some Commissioner, such Commissioner/Advocate shall furnish an affidavit after recording statements to the effect that the parties had appeared before him/her and he/she had recorded their statements as per law and that the said parties had been duly identified by their respective counsel. This shall be subject to satisfaction

of trial Court/Illaqa Magistrate.

After recording the statements of all the affected parties in either of the aforesaid manner, the trial Court/Illaqa Magistrate shall submit its report on the basis of the statements so recorded as to whether all the affected parties have entered into a compromise and as to whether the compromise in question is found to be a valid compromise and has been effected without there being