High Courts may invoke inherent powers under Section 482 CrPC to quash criminal proceedings involving non-compoundable offences where a genuine, voluntary settlement has been reached in a dispute of personal or private nature, provided the offence is not heinous or against public interest.

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VINOD S. BHARDWAJ, J. (Oral)

Prayer in the present petition is for quashing of FIR No.54 dated 04.07.2022 registered under Sections 283,323,341,506,148,149 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 at Police Station Mulepur, District Fatehgarh Sahib alongwith all other consequential proceedings arising therefrom, on the basis of compromise dated 02.04.2025 (Annexure P-2).

The aforesaid FIR was registered on the statement of Beero Kaur wife of Pappu Ram, resident of Bazigar Basti Colony, Police Station Mulepur, District Fatehgarh Sahib, relevant part of which is extracted as under:-

“I would like to state that I am resident of above noted address and I am house wife. I have one son namely Manpreet Singh and one daughter namely Seema Rani, both are married. Today at morning time, my son Manpreet Singh was in the process to go to his work on his Tempo then at around 7.00 AM, Surjit Singh son of Boota Ram and Malkit Singh son of Surjit Singh residents of Bazigar Basti Colony Rurki has parked his Innova Car and Innova Pick-up in the street in front of our house. My son Manpreet Singh told them to remove their cars from said place but they started abusing him and said that you may do whatever you want to do, we will park our vehicle here. Thereafter they both Surjit Singh @ Mahi and Malkit Singh have brought Gandasi and Axe from their houses and started threatening that you get your vehicle back, we will park our vehicle here, otherwise we will dismantle your vehicle. They made phone call and called Vicky son of Kashmir Singh armed with Gandasi, Kashmira Ram @ Kalu son of Battu Ram armed with baseball, Rinku son of Mohna Ram armed with Danda, Gajju son of Mohna Ram armed with Danda, Mohna Ram son of Boota Ram armed with baseball and Ajay son of Balkara Ram Kaka son of Balkara Ram, Ravi son of Sadhu Ram, Sikandari Devi wife of Surjit Ram there and they all started abusing us that catch them, don't let them go dry, then Surjit Singh @ Mahi has given blow of his Axe to me, then I rushed to my house, Malkit Singh and Kashmira Ram @ Kalu have beaten my son with Dandas who also rushed to his house, then we raised noise Marta Marta. On hearing our noise, Surit Singh son of Vadhava Ram, Gurpreet Singh son of Surjit Singh, Karnail Singh son of Jinder Ram came to save us, Surjit Ram @ Mahi has given blow of his Axe to Surjit Singh which hit on his left side arm, then all started raising hue and cry in loudly voice, then they all entered into our house, Rinku son of Sohna Ramhas given blow of Gandasi on the head of Karnail Singh, due to which he stained with blood, Sikandari Devi and Kaka have taken the one month old child namely Arman from the hands of my Daughter-in-law Amna and thrown him on the ground who started weeping loudly. Gurpreet Singh @ Raju has given blow of Danda on the right arm, Ravi has given blow of Danda on the back, then we were raising noise "Marta Marta", in the meantime our neighbour Inder Singh Numberdar son of Vadhawa Ram came and they make them understood and sent them back to their house and they took their vehicles from there. Earlier also they were threatening to kill us. We saved ourselves from them by hiding in the rooms of our house. The motive behind the incident is that one month ago, Malkit Ram had threatened to my son that I will not allow you to take your vehicle on the way and will close the way of your vehicle. Due to said reason they quarreled with us and have beaten us.”

However, with the intervention of the respectables, the parties have decided to compromise the matter. Hence, the present petition. The parties were thus directed to appear before the learned trial Court/Illaqa Magistrate vide order dated 02.02.2026 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.

Pursuant to the said order, report has been received fr