1 2025:HHC:22066 IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA Cr. MMO No. 458 of 2025 Reserved on: 03.07.2025 Date of Decision: 10.07.2025 Narender Kumar ...Petitioner Versus State of H.P. & others ...Respondents Coram Hon’ble Mr Justice Rakesh Kainthla, Judge. Whether approved for reporting? No. For the petitioner : Mr. Hemant Kumar Thakur, Advocate. For respondents No.1 to 3 : Mr. Ajit Sharma, Deputy Advocate General. For respondents No. 4 and 5 : Mr. Dipanshu Bindal, Advocate. Rakesh Kainthla, Judge The petitioner has filed the present petition for quashing of FIR No. 87 of 2024, dated 2.8.2024, registered at Police Station Karsog, District Mandi, H.P. for the commission of an offence punishable under Section 281 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS), and Section 187 of Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 2 2025:HHC:22066 (MV Act) and consequential proceedings arising out of the said F.I.R. based on the compromise effected between the parties. 2. It has been asserted that the parties have voluntarily entered into a compromise with the intervention of the respectable members of the society. The informant does not want to proceed further with the matter after the compromise. Hence, the petition. 3. Statements of informant Om Prakash Kaushal and injured Lalit Kumar were recorded on 6.6.2025, in which they stated that the matter was voluntarily compromised between the parties without any influence from any person, and the informant and injured had no objection in case the FIR is ordered to be quashed. 4. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and have gone through the records carefully. 5. The offence punishable under Section 281 of BNS corresponds to Section 279 of the Indian Penal Code. This Court has already quashed the F.I.R. registered for the commission of offences punishable under Sections 279 and 337 of IPC in Sushant vs State of H.P. 2023 HLC 531, Vikas Huda vs. State of H.P. 2023 STPL 3 2025:HHC:22066 3009, Kulwidner Singh vs Ankush Kumar 2023 HLR 384 and Nishant vs. State 2022 Suppl. Law Cases 45 based on compromise. These judgments are binding on this Court. 6. Therefore, in view of these precedents, the present petition is allowed and the FIR No. 87 of 2024, dated 2.8.2024, registered at Police Station Karsog, District Mandi, H.P. for the commission of an offence punishable under Section 281 of BNS, Section 187 of MV Act and consequent proceedings arising out of the said F.I.R. are quashed. 7. Petition stands disposed of in the above terms, so also pending applications, if any. 8. Parties are permitted to produce a copy of this judgment, downloaded from the webpage of the High Court of Himachal Pradesh before the authorities concerned, and the said authorities shall not insist on the production of a certified copy but if required, may verify passing of the order from Website of the High Court. (Rakesh Kainthla) Judge 10th July, 2025 (Chander)