FIRST LAW

Criminal P.C. 1973 - S. 482 - Penal Code, 1860 - Ss 279, 337 & 338 - Motor Vehicle Act, 1988 - S. 185 -  Driving by a drunken person or by a person under the influence of drugs -  Whether the FIR in such like cases can, in fact, be quashed on the basis of compromise - Though the State has expressed its slight reservation regarding compounding of the offence but I find that this is not such wherein the offence for which the petitioner has been charged can be stricto sensu held to be the offence against the State. Even otherwise, once respondent No.2 has compromised the matter, the possibility of conviction is remote and bleak and the continuation of the criminal case against the petitioner would put the petitioner to great oppression and prejudice and extreme injustice would be caused to him by not quashing the criminal case.