IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision : 06.02.2025 VIRENDRA KUMAR ..... Petitioner VERSUS STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER ..... Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MS. JUSTICE KIRTI SINGH Present: Mr. Sauhard Singh, Advocate, for the petitioner.

Mr. Brijesh Sharma, AAG, Haryana.

Mr. Viren Nehra, Advocate and Mr. Vipin Choudhary, Advocate for respondent No.2.

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KIRTI SINGH, J. (Oral)

1. The present petition has been filed under Section 528 of BNSS, 2023 for quashing of FIR No.125 dated 05.03.2024, under Sections 376(2) (n) and 506 IPC registered at Police Station Sector-8, Faridabad and all other consequential proceedings arising therefrom on the basis of the compromise. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner relies upon a judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Kapil Gupta Vs. State of N.C.T. of Delhi and another, 2022 (4) RCR (Crl.) 497, to contend that FIR under Section 376 of IPC (now Section 64 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023) can be quashed on the basis of compromise. Learned counsel has further relied upon a judgment of this Court in Karan Sharma Vs. State of Haryana and another, 2021(1) Law Herald 149 and contends that once the parties have compromised the