LALIT KUMAR GANDHI vs STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER

CRM-M-40681-2025 (O&M) 1 252 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-40681-2025 (O&M) Date of Decision: 05.05.2026 LALIT KUMAR GANDHI ... PETITIONER VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER ... RESPONDENTS CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE H.S.GREWAL Present:- Mr. Ashim Singla, Advocate for Mr. Tarun Singla, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Surinderjit Singh Nahar, AAG, Punjab Mr. Satyaveer Singh, Advocate for respondent No.2. H.S. GREWAL, J. (ORAL) 1. The present petition has been filed under Section 528 of BNSS for quashing of FIR No. 36 dated 24.05.2021, under Sections 406, 420 IPC, registered at Police Station SGN Dev Thermal Plant, District Bathinda and all the subsequent proceedings arising therefrom, on the basis of compromise. 2. This Court vide order dated 27.01.2026 had directed the parties to appear before the trial Court 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 learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Bathinda and got their statements recorded. On the basis of the statements so recorded, learned Judicial M