249 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-52114-2024 Date of decision: 08.01.2025 GURNAM SINGH AND OTHERS ...Petitioner(s)

VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER ...Respondent(s)

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASGURPREET SINGH PURI Present:- Mr. Rahi Mehra, Advocate for Mr. Vishva Bahl, Advocate for the petitioners.

Mr. P. S. Bhandari, AAG, Punjab.

Mr. Govind Rana, Advocate for respondent No.2.

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JASGURPREET SINGH PURI, J. (Oral)

1. The present petition has been filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 for quashing of FIR No.3 dated 31.01.2020, under Sections 498-A and 406 of the IPC, registered at Police Station Women-I, Amritsar alongwith all other consequential proceedings arising therefrom, on the basis of compromise (Annexure P-2).

2. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners submitted that it is a case where petitioner No.1 is the husband and respondent No.2 is the wife and after the marriage, their relations turned sour and the present FIR was registered by respondent No.2 against petitioner No.1 and thereafter, the other petitioners were arraigned as accused. He further submitted that thereafter with the intervention of