The Supreme Court has ruled that once a High Court accepts a compromise to quash certain offences in an FIR, it cannot sustain other offences arising from the exact same “inseparable” factual matrix. The Court held that if the settlement is genuine enough to quash personal offences, it “equally dilutes the foundation” of more serious
Partial Prosecution Unjustified When All Offences Arise From ‘Single Transaction’ and Are Compromised: Supreme Court
