IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

277 Date of decision: 21.01.2026 Pritam Singh and others ...Petitioner(s)

VERSUS State of Punjab and others ...Respondent(s)

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

Mr. Saurav Verma, Addl. A.G., Punjab.

Ms. Kamaldeep Kaur, Advocate for Mr. D.S. Gandhi, Advocate for respondents No. 2 to 4.

*****

VINOD S. BHARDWAJ, J. (Oral)

1. Prayer in the instant petition is for quashing of FIR No.0034 dated 28.04.2024 under Sections 452, 307, 324, 323, 506, 160, 148, 149 of the IPC (Section 326 of the IPC added later on) registered at Police Station Daba, District Ludhiana, along with all consequential proceedings arising therefrom on the basis of compromise dated 18.01.2025 (Annexure P-2).

2. Briefly stated, the prosecution case is that complainant- Gurpreet Singh runs a hosiery business and has a hosiery factory situated near his house. On 27.04.2024, he along with his employee Baljeet Singh, son of Malkeet Singh, were going to D-Mart to get household goods in his car. While driving, two people came on a motorcycle and hit the bumper of his car. Thereafter, they started abusing him. The person sitting on the backside of the motorcycle stated his name to be Pritam. After that the complainant returned with his belongings but found that the motorcyclists and some other persons armed with kirpans, daah (sickle) and rods had attacked his brother inside his house. The aforementioned Pritam Singh attacked the complainant’s brother, Manpreet Singh with a Kirpan with an intention to kill him. The complainant and Baljeet Singh entered the house to defend and at that time Pritam Singh told Harman and Jasdeep that they were the ones who had told them to ride motorcycle with care, today they have to be taught a lesson. These persons attacked the complainant several times and Harman and Jaspeet gave blows on the left arm of the brother of the complainant with Dasti Daat and caused several injuries. Pritam Singh gave a blow with Kirpan on the head of the complainant with the intention to kill. Other unknown persons also inflicted several injuries to the complainant, Manpreet and Baljeet Singh. When the mother of the complainant came down from upstairs to save them, then Pritam Singh aggressively threatened her to keep quiet or she will also be taught a lesson. Then he told Sagar to leave Gurpreet and teach Baljeet a lesson, on which Sagar gave a blow with Dasti Daat to Baljeet which hit him on his left arm. After the hearing hue and cry, people from the streets started gathering. On seeing them, the accused persons ran away from the spot with their weapons after threatening to kill the victims. After arranging a vehicle, they were taken to the hospital for treatment. Manpreet Singh and Baljeet Singh were admitted to Civil Hospital Ludhiana. The complainant was admitted to DMC Hospital. Thereafter Manpreet Singh and Baljeet Singh were referred from Civil Hospital Ludhiana to DMC and were given treatment there. On these assertions, a request was made to take strict legal action against Pritam Singh, Harman Singh, Jasdeep Singh, Sagar and other 15/16 unknown person.

3. However, with the intervention of the respectables, the parties have decided to compromise the matter. Hence, the present petition.

4. The parties were directed to appear before the learned trial Court/Illaqa Magistrate vide order dated 10.07.2025 of this Court, to get their statements recorded regarding the compromise arrived at between the parties and a report in this regard was called for.

5. Pursuant to the said order, report has been received from the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Ludhiana vide Memo No. 286 dated

06.09.2025. The relevant extract of the report is reproduced as under:-

“i). Name of Complainant is Gurpreet Singh and name of accused are Accused Pritam Singh, Harman Singh, Jasdeep Singh, Sujal Kumar, Ramesh Kumar and Pritpal Singh. In pr