IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 16.02.2026 RANBIR SINGH . . . Petitioner Versus STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER . . . Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE KIRTI SINGH Present: Mr. Prageet Bhardwaj, Advocate for the petitioner(s).

Ms. Aakanksha Gupta, AAG, Punjab.

Mr. Abhishek Lubana, Advocate for the respondent No.2.

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KIRTI SINGH , J. (ORAL)

1. The present petition has been filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, for quashing of FIR No. 03 dated 06.01.2025, under Sections 376 of IPC, registered at Police Station Bhikhi, District Mansa, Punjab (Annexure P-1) and all other consequential proceedings arising therefrom on the basis of the compromise and affidavit (Annexure P-2) arrived between the parties.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner and respondent No.2, both being mature adults, were in a consensual relationship, which due to certain irreconcilable differences, could not culminate into marriage, which prompted respondent No.2 to falsely implicate the petitioner in the instant case by leveling allegations of rape on the false pretext of marriage. It is submitted that the offence of f