CRM-M-16760-2026 (O&M) 1- 290 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-16760-2026 (O&M) Date of decision: 09.07.2026 MANJIT KAUR ALIAS SINDER KAUR AND OTHERS ...PETITIONERS VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS ...RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINI SINGH NAGPAL Present: Mr. Karan Singla, Advocate for petitioners. Mr. Hardeep Singh Wadhwa, DAG Punjab. Ms. Malvi Aggarwal, Advocate for respondents No.2 to 4. *** SHALINI SINGH NAGPAL J. 1. Petitioners seek quashing of FIR No.0141 dated 03.10.2023 under Sections 324, 323, 506, 148, 149 Indian Penal Code, Police Station Sadar Dhuri, District Sangrur and all consequential proceedings arising therefrom, on the basis of compromise dated 21.02.2026. Sections 325 and 201 IPC was added in the FIR during investigation. 2. On 27.03.2026 and 25.05.2026 this Court directed the parties to appear before learned trial Court/Illaqa Magistrate for recording of their statements on the basis of compromise. 3. In compliance of the aforesaid order, parties appeared before learned JMIC, Dhuri on 03.06.2026. Statement of Investigating Officer SI Tarsem Singh was also recorded on 03.06.2026. Learned JMIC, Dhuri has submitted his report recording satisfaction that all the parties have entered SUMIT SINGLA 2026.07.09 19:54 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document CRM-M-16760-2026 (O&M) -2- into a valid compromise without any influence or coercion. Point-wise report as under has been submitted: “It is respectfully submitted that in compliance of the orders dated 27.03.2026 & 25.05.2026 passed by the Hon'ble Punjab and Haryana High Court in CRM-M-16760-2026, statement of complainant Tej Singh, injured namely Bharbhur Singh and Balwinder Singh, accused persons namely Manjit Kaur @ Sinder Kaur, Rajwinder Singh @ Raju, Pritpal Singh @ Prithi Singh, Gagandeep Singh @ Ravi, Overseer Singh @ Sonu @ Sonu Singh and Davinder Singh and Investigating Officer namely SI Tarsem Singh were recorded on 03.06.2026 by the undersigned being Illaqa Magistrate. Complainant Tej Singh son of Mukhtiar Singh, resident village Ghanauri Kalan, Tehsil Dhuri, District Sangrur suffered a statement to the effect that he has compromised the matter with accused persons namely Manjit Kaur @ Sinder Kaur, Rajwinder Singh @ Raju, Pritpal Singh @ Prithi Singh, Gagandeep Singh @ Ravi, Overseer Singh @ Sonu @ Sonu Singh and Davinder Singh in FIR No. 0141 dated 03.10.2023, under Section 323,324,325,201, 506,148,149 IPC, Police Station Sadar Dhuri. The compromise arrived between him, injured namely Bharbhur Singh and Balwinder Singh and the above named accused persons is genuine, voluntary, without any coercion, undue influence and pressure. He has placed on record photocopy of his identity proof i.e. Aadhar Card, which is Ex. C1. He has no objection if the present FIR be quashed against the accused persons. Learned counsel for the complainant and injured identified the complainant. Similarly, injured Bharbhur Singh son of Tej Singh, resident of village Ghanauri Kalan, Tehsil Dhuri, District Sangrur suffered a statement to the effect that he has compromised the matter with accused persons namely Manjit Kaur @ Sinder Kaur, Rajwinder Singh @ Raju, Pripal Pritpal Singh @ Prithi Singh, SUMIT SINGLA 2026.07.09 19:54 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document CRM-M-16760-2026 (O&M) -3- Gagandeep Singh @ Ravi, Overseer Singh @ Sonu @ Sonu Singh and Davinder Singh in FIR No. 0141 dated 03.10.2023, under Section 323,324,325,201, 506,148,149 IPC, Police Station Sadar Dhuri. The compromise arrived between him, complainant, injured namely Balwinder Singh and the above named accused persons is genuine, voluntary, without any coercion, undue influence and pressure. He has placed on record photocopy of his identity proof i.e. Aadhar Card, which is Ex. C2. He has no objection if the present FIR be quashed against the accused persons. Learned counsel for the complainant and injured identified the injured Bharbhur Singh. Similarly, injured Balwinder Singh son of Tej Singh, resident of village Ghanauri Kalan, Tehsil Dhuri, District Sangrur suffered a statement to the effect that he has compromised the matter with accused persons namely Manjit Kaur @ Sinder Kaur, Rajwinder Singh @ Raju, Pritpal Singh @ Prithi Singh, Gagandeep Singh @ Ravi, Overseer Singh @ Sonu @ Sonu Singh and Davinder Singh in FIR No. 0141 dated 03.10.2023, under Section 323,324,325,201, 506,148,149 IPC, Police Station Sadar Dhuri. The compromise arrived between him, complainant, injured namely Bharbhur Singh and the above named accused persons is genuine, voluntary, without any coercion, undue influence and pressure. He has placed on record photocopy of his identity proof i.e. Aadhar Card, which is Ex. C3. He has no objection if the present FIR be quashed against the accused persons. Learned counsel for the complainant and injured identified the injured Balwinder Singh. Similarly, accused persons namely Manjit Kaur @ Sinder Kaur, Rajwinder Singh @ Raju, Pritpal Singh @ Prithi Singh, Gagandeep Singh @ Ravi, Overseer Singh @ Sonu @ Sonu Singh and Davinder Singh suffered joint statement to the effect that they have heard the statement of complainant Tej Singh and injured namely Bharbhur Singh and Balwinder Singh. They have compromised the matter with complainant and injured. They agree SUMIT SINGLA 2026.07.09 19:54 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document CRM-M-16760-2026 (O&M) -4- with the statement of complainant and injured. Accordingly, FIR No. 0141 dated 03.10.2023, under Section 323,324,325,201,506,148,149 IPC, Police Station Sadar Dhuri may kindly be quashed against them in view of the compromise i.e. Ex. PX. The compromise arrived between them and complainant and injured is genuine, voluntary, without any coercion, undue influence and pressure. They have placed on record photocopy of their identity proof i.e. Aadhar Card which are Ex. C4 to Ex. Ex. C9. They identified the complainant as well as injured present in the Court. None of them have been declared proclaimed offender in the present case. The counsel for the accused persons identified all the accused persons. Investigating Officer SI Tarsem Singh No.64/SGR, also recorded his statement to the effect that he is investigating officer of the present case FIR No.0141 dated 03.10.2023, under Section 325, 324, 323, 506, 148, 149 and 201 IPC, PS Sadar Dhuri, District Sangrur. The present case has been registered on the statement of complainant Tej Singh son of Mukhtiar Singh, resident of Bula Patti, village Ghanauri Kalan, Tehsil Dhuri, District Sangrur against accused persons namely Manjit Kaur @ Sinder Kaur wife of Avtar Singh, Rajwinder Singh @ Raju Singh son of Avtar Singh, Pritpal Singh @ Prithi Singh son of Gulzar Singh @ D.C., Gagandeep Singh @ Ravi Singh son of Gurjant Singh & Janta Singh, Overseer Singh @ Sonu @ Sonu Singh son of Angrej Singh and Davinder Singh son of Amarjit Singh. In this case, the name of complainant is Tej Singh son of Mukhtiar Singh and names of injured/aggrieved are Bharbhur Singh and Balwinder Singh. FIR No.131 dated 22-06-2015 u/s 324/323/34 IPC, PS Sadar Dhuri was registered against accused Rajwinder Singh @ Raju, in which accused Rajwinder Singh @ Raju was acquitted on 17.04.2017. FIR No.84 dated 28-04-2020 under section 21/29/61/85 NDPS Act and 188 IPC, PS City Dhuri was registered against Pritpal Singh @ Prithi, in which Pritpal Singh @ Prithi was convicted on 21.11.2025) FIR No.155 dated 20- 09- SUMIT SINGLA 2026.07.09 19:54 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document CRM-M-16760-2026 (O&M) -5- 2024 under section 305(9)/331 BNS, PS Sadar Dhuri was registered against Gagandeep Singh @ Ravi Singh and same is pending against him. FIR No.155 dated 20-09-2024 under section 305(9)/331 BNS, PS Sadar Dhuri and FIR No.121 dated 05-04- 2020 under section 188/269/270/271 IPC, PS Sadar Dhuri were registered against Overseer Singh @ Sonu @ Sonu Singh and same are pending against him. None of the accused have been declared as proclaimed offenders in this FIR/case or any other FIR/case. There are seven persons namely Manjit Kaur @ Sinder Kaur, There Gurjit Singh @ Happy Singh (since deceased), Rajwinder Singh @ Raju Singh, Pritpal Singh @ Prithi Singh, Gagandeep Singh @ Ravi, Overseer Singh @ Sonu @ Sonu Singh and Davinder Singh Singh who have been arrayed as accused in the present FIR. Now both the parties have compromised the matter with each other without any pressure, coercion or undue influence at their own, with the intervention of the respectable, family members and village panchayat members. The case is pending for evidence of the prosecution. As per the record available with the court of undersigned and as per the statement of the complainant, injured, accused persons and investigating officer, there are seven accused persons namely namely Manjit Kaur @ Sinder Kaur, Gurjit Singh @ Happy Singh (since deceased), Rajwinder Singh @ Raju Singh, Pritpal Singh @ Prithi Singh, Gagandeep Singh @ Ravi, Overseer Singh @ Sonu @ Sonu Singh and Davinder Singh and none of the accused persons have been declared as proclaimed offender in the present FIR. As per the record available with the court of undersigned and as per the statement of the investigating officer, the name of complainant is Tej Singh and names of injured/aggrieved are Bharbhur Singh and Balwinder Singh and all of them appeared and recorded their statements in support of the compromise. As per the record available with the court of undersigned, the present case is pending for prosecution evidence. On the basis of statements given by complainant, injured, accused persons and the investigating SUMIT SINGLA 2026.07.09 19:54 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document CRM-M-16760-2026 (O&M) -6- officer, this Court is of the considered view that compromise arrived at between the parties is genuine, voluntarily and out of free will and is effected without any pressure, coercion or undue influence from any quarter. As per the statement of the investigating officer, FIR No.131 dated 22- 06-2015, under Section 324/323/34 IPC, PS Sadar Dhuri was registered against accused Rajwinder Singh @ Raju, in which accused Rajwinder Singh @ Raju was acquitted on 17.04.2017. As per the statement of investigating officer, FIR No.84 dated 28-04-2020 under Section 21/29/61/85 NDPS Act and 188 IPC, PS City Dhuri was registered against Pritpal Singh @ Prithi, in which Pritpal Singh @ Prithi was convicted on 21.11.2025. As per the statement of the investigating officer, FIR No.155 dated 20-09-2024 under Section 305(9)/331 BNS, PS Sadar Dhuri was registered against Gagandeep Singh @ Ravi Singh and same is pending against him. As per the statement of the investigating officer, FIR No.155 dated 20-09-2024 under Section 305(9)/331 BNS, PS Sadar Dhuri and FIR No.121 dated 05-04-2020 under Section 188/269/270/271 IPC, PS Sadar Dhuri were registered against Overseer Singh @ Sonu @ Sonu Singh and same are pending against him. This report along-with copies of statement of complainant namely Tej Singh, injured namely Bharbhur Singh and Balwinder Singh, accused persons namely Manjit Kaur @ Sinder Kaur, Rajwinder Singh @ Raju, Pritpal Singh @ Prithi Singh, Gagandeep Singh @ Ravi, Overseer Singh @ Sonu @ Sonu Singh and Davinder Singh and investigating officer SI Tarsem Singh No.64/SGR are submitted as desired and directed by the Hon'ble Punjab and Haryana High Court vide orders dated 27.03.2026 & 25.05.2026, respectively.” 4. Learned State counsel and learned counsel for respondent respondents No.2 to 4 have not raised any dispute regarding the factum of compromise between petitioners and respondents No.2 to 4. SUMIT SINGLA 2026.07.09 19:54 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document CRM-M-16760-2026 (O&M) -7- 5. Since the matter has been amicably settled between the parties, continuation of the criminal proceedings would be an exercise in futility. 6. Following principles of law laid down by the Full Bench Judgment of this Court in “Kulwinder Singh and others Vs. State of Punjab and another” 2007(3) RCR (Criminal) 1052 and Hon’ble Supreme Court in “Gian Singh Versus State of Punjab and others” (2012) 10 SCC 303, the petition is allowed. 7. FIR No.0141 dated 03.10.2023 under Sections 324, 323, 506, 148, 149, 325 and 201 Indian Penal Code, Police Station Sadar Dhuri, District Sangrur and all consequential proceedings arising therefrom, are quashed qua the petitioners. 8. Pending miscellaneous applications, if any, stand disposed of. (SHALINI SINGH NAGPAL) 09.07.2026 JUDGE Sumit Singla Whether speaking/reasoned : Yes/No Whether reportable : Yes/No SUMIT SINGLA 2026.07.09 19:54 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document