IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-56091-2024 (O&M) Date of decision : 15.01.2025 Manpreet Singh @ Monu and others ... Petitioner(s)

Versus State of Punjab and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MAHABIR SINGH SINDHU Present: Mr. G.S. Simble, Advocate for the petitioners.

Mr. Kunwarbir Singh, AAG, Punjab.

Ms. Pratula Sethi, Advocate, for Mr. Rajveer Singh Brar, Advocate, for respondent No.2.

MAHABIR SINGH SINDHU, J.

Present petition has been filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, the ‘B.N.S.S.’), praying for quashing of FIR No.85 dated 29.08.2022, under Sections 342, 323 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short, ‘the IPC’) and Section 3(1)(r) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 [final report presented under Sections 323 & 342 read with Section 34 IPC], registered at Police Station, Sekhwan, Police District Batala, District Gurdaspur, along with all consequential proceedings arising therefrom on the basis of compromise dated 09.10.2024 (P-2), entered into between the parties i.e. petitioners as well as respondent No.2.

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