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.

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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,