the legislature in order to achieve its object, encapsulated in Section 345(1) Cr.P.C, has allowed the persons mentioned in third column of the table, to compound the specified offences, without seeking permission of the Court, even after taking cognizance. While dispensing with permission of Court for compounding the offence by the relevant person, the legislature, in absence of any bar, in fact left a window opened and has permitted to adopt this approach, that as a result of compounding of specified offences prior to submission of a report under Section 173 Cr.P.C i.e. at the stage of pre-arrest or post-arrest bail or on intervention of the respectable, or otherwise preferably reducing the same into writing, during the investigation, for the police to restrain itself from undertaking the cumbersome business of investigation into such cases except bringing on record the material relating to the compounding and prepare a cancellation report, instead of utilizing their skills and time in other matters requiring their urgent attention, for placing it as aforesaid before a Magistrate for passing an appropriate order. The Magistrate, in order to satisfy himself, regarding the genuineness of the compromise, arrived at between the parties may summon the complainant/person to verify the factum of compromise before passing an appropriate order for cancellation of a case.
It may be emphasized that a recourse to this approach in relation to the specified offences by the entire hierarchy from Police to the learned Magistrate, would save the parties from facing the agony of fruitless proceedings to be carried out by the Courts besides saving their hard earned money and other resources. It would also save the public time and shall also lessen the burden of the already overburdened Courts. Moreover, such a proactive approach on part of the Police and the Magistrate would amount to dispensing the public with speedy justice in accordance with the spirit of Article 4 of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973.