S. No.127 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH ****

CRM-M-60731 of 2025 Date of Decision:31.10.2025 Avtar Singh and another .....Petitioners Vs.

State of Punjab and another .....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE YASHVIR SINGH RATHOR Present:- Mr. Baljinder Singh, Advocate for the petitioners.

Mr. Rahul Jindal, AAG, Punjab.

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Yashvir Singh Rathor, J. (Oral)

1. By way of present petition filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (corresponding to Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973) petitioners are seeking quashing of FIR No.219 dated 15.12.2012 registered under Sections 295-A, 297 and 506 IPC at Police Station Kurali, District SAS Nagar (Mohali) and all consequential proceedings arising therefrom on the ground that no offence is made out against the petitioners as the said FIR is false and an abuse of the process of law. The Investigating Agency has found that no offence is made out and filed a cancellation report dated 17.02.2013 around 12 years ago, but the said cancellation report has been returned on procedural grounds and FIR continues to remain pending for more than 13 years without any challan having been prese