2026:UHC:2467 SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS WPCRL No. 578 of 2026 Hon’ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J. 1. Mr. Mukesh Singh Rawat, learned counsel for the petitioners. 2. Mr. B.C. Joshi, learned A.G.A. for the State. 3. Ms. Chitra Joshi, learned counsel for the complainant. 4. The instant writ petition has been moved by the petitioners Shabdar Ali alias Shanu S/o Akhtar Ali, Aabid, S/o Shaukat Ali and Afsar Ali S/o Akhtar Ali for quashing of first information report dated 26.10.2025 bearing FIR No. 0310 of 2025, P.S. Transit Camp, District Udham Singh Nagar lodged by the respondent no.3 implicating each of them for the offences punishable under Sections 118(1), 351(1) and 352 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. 5. The petition is supported with the compounding application along with the affidavits of the petitioners and the complainant/respondent no.3, as well as the affidavit of father of respondent no.4, who is minor, with this contention that they have amicably settled their disputes and their relations are cordial and the complainant does not want to 2026:UHC:2467 pursue the impugned FIR. The petitioners as well as respondent no.3 and father of the respondent no.4 are present in Court and identified by their respective counsels. 6. It is contended in the compounding application that the petitioners as well as the respondent no.3/complainant and his brother, the injured, victim, living in the same locality and are old friends and have settled their disputes. Mr. Fahim Malik, the complainant joined the proceedings through V.C. and submits that his brother sustained only simple injuries. 7. This Court also interacted with the complainant who submits that he does not want to pursue the complaint, therefore, proceedings pursuant to the impugned FIR be quashed. 8. On the other side, Mr. B.C. Joshi, the learned A.G.A submits that all the offences are compoundable except offence punishable under Section 118(1) but the said offence can also be compounded with the leave of the court. 9. After hearing the arguments of learned counsel for the parties and taking into consideration the averments as made in the compounding application and the fact that both the parties have settled their disputes and their relations are cordial, this Court is 2026:UHC:2467 of the view that the writ petition as well as the compounding application are liable to be allowed. 10. Accordingly, the writ petition as well as the compounding application are allowed and the impugned FIR dated 26.10.2025 bearing FIR No. 0310 of 2025, P.S. Transit Camp, District Udam Singh Nagar is hereby quashed. (Rakesh Thapliyal, J.) 07.04.2026 Nahid 2026:UHC:2467