ARJUN AND OTHERS vs UT OF CHANDIGARH AND OTHERS

CRM-M-70040-2025 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 312 CRM-M-70040-2025 Date of decision: 26.05.2026 ARJUN AND OTHERS ….Petitioners Versus UT OF CHANDIGARH AND ANOTHER ....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RUPINDERJIT CHAHAL Present: Mr. Rakesh Gupta, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. Satish Kumar, Additional P.P. UT Chandigarh. Mr. Arjun Atri, Advocate for respondent No.2. ***** RUPINDERJIT CHAHAL, J. (ORAL) 1. This is a petition filed under Section 528 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, for quashing of FIR No.99, dated 12.06.2023, under Sections 420 IPC, registered at PS Centre, Sector-17, Chandigarh, (Annexure P-1) and consequential proceedings arising therefrom on the basis of compromise dated 24.09.2025 (Annexure P-2). 2. This Court vide orders dated 06.03.2026 and 08.05.2026 had directed the parties to appear before the Illaqa/Duty Magistrate to get their statements recorded and the learned Magistrate was directed to send its report qua the genuineness of the compromise. 3. Pursuant to the aforesaid order, parties have appeared before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chandigarh and got their statements recorded. On the basis of the statem