IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

310 Date of decision: 14.01.2026 Balwan Singh and another ...Petitioner(s)

VERSUS State of Haryana and another ...Respondent(s)

CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINOD S. BHARDWAJ Present :- Ms. Kashish Sahni, Advocate, for the petitioners.

Mr. Onkar Singh Wahla, Sr. DAG, Haryana.

Mr. Pankaj Bains, Advocate, for respondent No.2.

VINOD S. BHARDWAJ, J. (Oral)

Prayer in the present petition is for quashing of FIR bearing No.750 dated 17.11.2016 registered under Sections 406, 420, 467, 468, 471, 506 and 120-B IPC, at Police Station Model Town, Panipat, along with all subsequent proceedings arising therefrom on the basis of compromise dated-

19.09.2025 (Annexure P-2).

2. Briefly summarized, the aforesaid FIR was registered on the statement of Ashok, son of Pawan, resident of village Sutana, Tehsil Matlauda, District Panipat, relevant part of which is extracted as under:-

Sir, The applicant/complainant submits as under: (1) That the applicant/complainant Ashok son of Pawan is the resident of village Sutana, Tehsil Matlauda, P.S. Matlauda, District Panipat, who is a law abiding citizen. The above accused persons are also the residents of village Sutana, Tehsil Matlauda, District Panipat and are real brothers. (2) That the accused approached the applicant/complainant in September, 2012 and assured the applicant/complainant that as per the jamabandi for the year 2000-01, both the brothers are the owners in possession of agricultural land, khewat No.512, khatauni No.892 to 897, Kitta 37, 1/18th share of the total area 260 kanals 8 marlas, measuring 14 kanals 9 marla, situated in village Sutana, Tehsil Matlauda, District Panipat. The accused offered to sell the above land for their personal needs and requested the applicant/complainant to purchase the same. Upon persuading by both the accused, the applicant/complainant agreed to purchase the above land. On 14.9.2012, the accused executed an agreement to sell the above land measuring 14 kanals 9 marlas at the rate ofRs.20,00,000/- per acre in favour of the applicant/ complainant. At the time of executing the agreement, both the accused received a sum of Rs. 30,00,000/- in cash from the applicant/complainant in the presence of the witnesses and the date of 1.10.2013 was fixed for getting the same registered. On 4.3.2013, both the accused upon the receipt of Rs.2,00,000/-in cash from the applicant/complainant, extended the date of registry upto 1.2.2014. (3) That due to the holidays on 1 and 2.2.2014, the office of the Registrar was closed. When the applicant/complainant came to Matlauda in the office of Registrar, then he came to know that since the Matlauda is a Sub-Tehsil, as such, the registration work is done on only two days i.e. Tuesdays and Fridays. On Tuesday i.e. 4.2.2014, due to the festival of Basant Panchmi, the office was closed. Thereafter the applicant/complainant remained present in the office of Tehsil on 7.2.2014 alongwith the balance amount and the expenses of the registry as per the agreement, but both the accused did not appear in the office of Tehsil for getting the registry of the above land in favour of the applicant/complainant. Thereafter the applicant/complainant got his presence marked before the Tehsildar. (4) That the applicant/complainant got verified the land mentioned in the agreement dated 14.9.2012 from the revenue record of the office of Tehsil, Matlauda, then the applicant/complainant came to know that both the accused are not the owners of the land mentioned in the agreement. The accused Balwan had sold his entire share to Sunder Singh son of Sh.Surat Singh, resident of village Siwah, Tehsil & District Panipat vide registered deed No.229 dated 25.5.2000, the mutation of which has been entered in the revenue record vide mutation No.2514. Similarly, the accused Rajpal has also sold all his land to Sunder Singh son of Sh.Surat Singh, resident of village Siwah, Tehsil & District Panipat vide registered deed No.36 dated