IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

254 Date of decision : 29.08.2025 Hrishabh Vashishtha @ Harisav Vashisht ….Petitioner V/S State of Punjab and others ….Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAMIT KUMAR Present: Mr. Kulwinder Singh, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Anup Singh, A.A.G., Punjab.

Mr. Avinash Singh, Advocate for respondent No.2.

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NAMIT KUMAR , J. (ORAL)

1. By invoking Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the petitioner has prayed for quashing of FIR No.264 dated 24.09.2020 registered under Sections 406 & 498 of Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Challan has been presented under Sections 406 & 498-A of IPC) at Police Station City Rupnagar, District Rupnagar (Annexure P-1) and all other subsequent proceedings arising thereof on the basis of compromise dated 03.01.2025 (Annexure P-2) arrived at between the parties.

2. Status report by way of an affidavit of Sh. Rajpal Singh Gill, PPS, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Sub Division & District Rupnagar, on behalf of respondent No.1-State, filed in the Registry is taken on record.

3. Learned counsel for the parties have stated that the present FIR may be quashed as the parties have amicably settled the disp