IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

270 CRM-M-73593-2025 (O&M).

Date of decision: 09.04.2026.

SAHIL ...Petitioner(s)

VERSUS STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER ...Respondent(s)

CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINOD S. BHARDWAJ Present :- Mr. B.S. Beniwal, Advocate, for the petitioner(s).

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

Ms. Nidhi, Advocate, for respondent No.2.

VINOD S. BHARDWAJ, J. (Oral)

Prayer in the present petition under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 is for quashing of FIR bearing No.848 dated 27.09.2022 under Section(s) 323, 341, 506 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, and Section 3 of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention Of Atrocities) Act, 1989, registered at Police Station Azad Nagar, Hisar, District Hisar, along with all subsequent proceedings arising therefrom on the basis of compromise dated 20.12.2025 (Annexure P-2).

2 The aforesaid FIR was registered on the statement of Piyush, son of Rajesh Kumar, aged about 18 years, resident of House No. 5159, Saket Colony, Azad Nagar, Hisar. As per the prosecution version, the complainant stated that he was employed at a grocery shop and that on 25.09.2022, at about 5:30 P.M., while he was returning to his house, he was intercepted near the water disposal by three boys. The said persons were identified as Lucky, son of Pawan Soni, resident of Azad Nagar; Sahil, resident of Sector-13, Hisar and one unknown individual. It is alleged that the said persons obstructed the complainant’s passage and, upon being questioned, started abusing him and made derogatory remarks with reference to his caste. Thereafter, accused Lucky inflicted an injury on the complainant’s ear with a knife, while co- accused Sahil struck him on the side of his head with a brick and the third person restrained him. The complainant further stated that, upon hearing the commotion, local residents gathered at the spot and intervened, whereafter the accused persons fled from the scene while extending threats to kill him in future. It is further alleged that the complainant thereafter contacted one Ishwar, who arranged for his transportation to the Government Hospital, Hisar, where he was admitted for treatment. Due to his medical condition and being under the influence of medication, the complainant could not immediately give his statement to the police. Subsequently, upon recovery, he made the present statement at the police station in the presence of his mother. On the basis of the aforesaid statement, the present FIR came to be registered against the accused persons.

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 08.01.2026 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, a report has been received from Additional Sessions Judge, Hisar, vide Memo No.99 dated 30.01.2026. The relevant extract of the report is reproduced as under: -

“After going through the statements of both the parties as well as IO, the report is as under:-

1. As per the statements of complainant, he stated that he has voluntarily compromised the matter with the accused namely Sahil, without any coercion, undue influence and pressure. He further stated that he has no objection, if the FIR is quashed against the accused namely Sahil. In the similar manner, the accused namely Sahil has made his statement to the effect that the matter has been compromised by the complainant with him voluntarily, without any coercion, undue influence and pressure. From the statements of complainant and accused, it appears that the matter between them has been compromised voluntarily, without any pressure of any kind, from any corner and the compromise effected between them, is genuine.

Hence, it seem