TL;DR: Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) is the renumbered home of the High Court’s inherent powers. It is, word for word, what Section 482 of the old Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 used to say. The text preserves three purposes - to give effect to orders under the Sanhita, to prevent abuse of the process of any court, and otherwise to secure the ends of justice. The big practical hook for litigators is FIR and proceeding quashing, still governed by the seven-category template from State of Haryana v. Bhajan Lal. Quashing on settlement survives through Gian Singh and Narinder Singh, but heinous offences stay out of reach. The 2025 Supreme Court has drawn fresh boundaries: a court cannot recall or review its own order under Section 528, and FIRs from before 1 July 2024 are still litigated under the saved CrPC. This guide maps every CrPC 482 reflex onto BNSS 528 so nothing trips you at the registry.
On this page
- What Section 528 BNSS actually is
- The renumbering that catches everyone
- The three inherent-power purposes, read carefully
- FIR quashing: the heart of the jurisdiction
- The Bhajan Lal seven categories
- Quashing on settlement: Gian Singh and Narinder Singh
- Where the power stops
- The savings clause and pending CrPC matters
- 2025-26 Supreme Court rulings on Section 528
- CrPC 482 to BNSS 528: a practitioner’s map
- How to draft a Section 528 petition
- Frequently asked questions
What Section 528 BNSS actually is
When Parliament replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 with the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, it did not rewrite the most important discretionary power in criminal procedure. It moved it. The High Court’s inherent power, for half a century the province of Section 482 of the CrPC, now sits in Section 528 of the BNSS. The new Sanhita came into force on 1 July 2024, and from that date the section number changed even though the substance did not.
The text reads: “Nothing in this Sanhita shall be deemed to limit or affect the inherent powers of the High Court to make such orders as may be necessary to give effect to any order under this Sanhita, or to prevent abuse of the process of any Court or otherwise to secure the ends of justice.”
Compare that with the old Section 482 CrPC: “Nothing in this Code shall be deemed to limit or affect the inherent powers of the High Court to make such orders as may be necessary to give effect to any order under this Code, or to prevent abuse of the process of any Court or otherwise to secure the ends of justice.” The only differences are “Sanhita” for “Code”. As the Sikkim High Court noted while sorting out which provision a litigant should invoke, the core provision is substantially the same. That is deliberate. The framers wanted continuity of jurisprudence, not a fresh start, so that fifty years of case law on inherent powers would carry over intact.
One feature is worth fixing in your mind at the outset. This power belongs to the High Court alone. No Sessions Court, no Chief Judicial Magistrate, no Judicial Magistrate has an inherent power of this kind under the BNSS. The various commentaries on the new code, including Legal SYNK’s note on Section 528, make this point flatly. Lower courts have only the powers the Sanhita expressly gives them. The inherent power is the High Court’s reserve fund of justice, to be drawn on when the written rules run out.
That is also why the section is phrased in the negative. It does not confer a power. It declares that nothing in the Sanhita shall be read as taking away a power the High Court already possesses by virtue of being a court of record. The drafting is a saving clause, not a grant. Courts have repeatedly said the inherent power pre-exists the statute and the statute merely refuses to fence it in.
The renumbering that catches everyone
Here is the trap, and it has already produced wrong filings. Under the old CrPC, the number 482 meant inherent powers. Under the BNSS, the number 482 means something completely different - it is now the anticipatory bail provision, the successor to the old CrPC Section 438. We have written about that shift separately in our guide to anticipatory bail under BNSS Section 482, and the overlap of numbers is exactly the kind of thing that costs a junior an embarrassing afternoon at the filing counter.
So the mapping you must memorise is a swap, not a slide:
| Power | Old CrPC | New BNSS |
|---|---|---|
| Inherent powers of the High Court | Section 482 | Section 528 |
| Anticipatory bail | Section 438 | Section 482 |
If you cite “Section 482” in a 2026 quashing petition without saying which code, you have created an ambiguity. Worse, a careless reader may think you are asking for anticipatory bail. The clean habit is to write “Section 528 of the BNSS, 2023 (corresponding to Section 482 of the CrPC, 1973)” the first time the section appears, and “Section 528” thereafter. That single parenthetical signals to the Bench that you know the codes and that the half-century of Section 482 law applies.
This is not pedantry. Section numbers are how Indian criminal practice is indexed in the head. A senior who has said “four-eighty-two” to mean inherent powers for thirty years will keep saying it. The discipline is to keep the spoken shorthand but write the correct section, because the order sheet, the cause title, and the eventual citation all live in the new numbering.
The three inherent-power purposes, read carefully
The section names three situations where the High Court may make “such orders as may be necessary”. They are not three boxes to tick. They are three overlapping descriptions of one underlying idea: that the High Court should be able to do justice when the procedural code, taken literally, would produce an unjust or absurd result.
First, to give effect to any order under the Sanhita. This is the housekeeping limb. If a court has passed an order and some incidental step is needed to make that order work, the High Court can supply it even though no specific provision spells out that step. It is the limb least litigated, because most orders carry their own machinery.
Second, to prevent abuse of the process of any court. This is the workhorse. Almost every quashing petition lives here. The classic abuse is a criminal complaint launched not to vindicate the law but to settle a civil score, to pressure a debtor, to harass a spouse’s family, or to convert a contractual dispute into a cognizable offence. When a prosecution is a vehicle for vengeance rather than justice, the process of the court is being abused, and the High Court can stop it.
Third, otherwise to secure the ends of justice. This is the residual limb, the safety valve. The word “otherwise” tells you it is meant to catch situations the first two limbs do not. It is also the limb most prone to misuse by petitioners who have no real ground and simply chant “ends of justice”. Courts are alive to this. They treat the limb as exceptional, not as a roving commission to review everything that feels unfair.
A point that students miss: these limbs do not expand the power, they describe it. The High Court cannot do something the law forbids simply by invoking the ends of justice. As we will see, where the Sanhita lays down a specific procedure or an express bar, the inherent power yields. The power fills gaps. It does not override clear text.
FIR quashing: the heart of the jurisdiction
For the practising criminal lawyer, Section 528 means one thing above all others: the power to quash a First Information Report or a criminal proceeding before it grinds an innocent person through years of trial. Our dedicated guide to FIR quashing walks through the procedure in detail; here we place it within the inherent-power framework.
The logic of quashing is simple to state and hard to apply. A criminal prosecution is itself a punishment - the summons, the bail bonds, the adjournments, the legal fees, the reputational stain. If the allegations, even if every word were true, do not amount to a crime, then forcing the accused through trial is an abuse of process. The High Court can cut it short.
The standard is deliberately strict because the power is dangerous. If High Courts quashed freely, they would become trial courts, weighing evidence and acquitting before the prosecution had a chance to lead its case. So the settled approach is that the court reads the FIR and the material as they stand, assumes the allegations are true, and asks a single question: do these allegations disclose an offence? It does not ask whether the allegations are true. That is for the trial.
The Supreme Court keeps returning to this discipline. In Dharambeer Kumar Singh v. State of Jharkhand, 2024 INSC 583, the Court restored a forgery prosecution the High Court had quashed, holding that a High Court must not hold a mini trial while exercising inherent jurisdiction. The phrase “mini trial” is the red line. The moment a quashing order starts weighing competing versions of fact, it has crossed into territory reserved for the trial court.
A more recent clarification helps petitioners on timing. In Imran Pratapgadhi v. State of Gujarat, 2025 SCC OnLine SC 678, the Supreme Court held there is no absolute rule that a High Court cannot quash while investigation is at a nascent stage. If, on the face of the FIR, no cognizable offence is made out, the court may quash regardless of how early the investigation is. The Bench tied the test to the facts and the nature of the offence rather than to a fixed stage. So the old reflex - “investigation has just begun, the petition is premature” - is not a complete answer. It depends on whether an offence is disclosed at all.
The Bhajan Lal seven categories
No discussion of quashing is complete without State of Haryana v. Bhajan Lal, 1992 Supp (1) SCC 335. The case arose from a corruption FIR against a former Chief Minister of Haryana, but its lasting contribution is the template the Supreme Court laid down for when inherent powers may be used to quash an FIR or criminal proceeding. The Court gave seven illustrative categories, with the heavy caveat that the power should be exercised “sparingly” and in the “rarest of rare” situations. These categories are not a checklist that grants relief automatically; they are guideposts.
The seven, as set out in the judgment, are:
| No. | Category |
|---|---|
| 1 | Where the allegations in the FIR or complaint, taken at face value and accepted in their entirety, do not prima facie constitute any offence or make out a case against the accused. |
| 2 | Where the allegations do not disclose a cognizable offence justifying an investigation by police under Section 156(1) of the CrPC, except under an order of a Magistrate under Section 155(2). |
| 3 | Where the uncontroverted allegations in the FIR and the evidence collected do not disclose the commission of any offence and make out a case against the accused. |
| 4 | Where the allegations in the FIR do not constitute a cognizable offence but constitute only a non-cognizable offence, for which no investigation is permitted by a police officer without an order of a Magistrate under Section 155(2). |
| 5 | Where the allegations are so absurd and inherently improbable that no prudent person could ever reach a just conclusion that there is sufficient ground for proceeding against the accused. |
| 6 | Where there is an express legal bar in any provision of the Code or the concerned Act under which the proceeding is instituted, or where there is a specific provision providing an efficacious redress for the grievance. |
| 7 | Where a criminal proceeding is manifestly attended with mala fides or is maliciously instituted with an ulterior motive for wreaking vengeance on the accused and with a view to spite him due to private and personal grudge. |
Two things to keep in view. The section numbers inside Bhajan Lal (156, 155) are CrPC numbers, because the case is from 1992. Under the BNSS the corresponding provisions carry new numbers, but the substance of the categories survives because the inherent power survives. Courts applying Bhajan Lal after 1 July 2024 read it as a statement of principle, not as a frozen cross-reference to the old code.
The second thing is the spirit. The Court in Bhajan Lal was explicit that it was not laying down rigid rules and that it was impossible to enumerate every situation. The categories are windows into one idea: quash where the prosecution is either legally empty or legally barred or born of malice. They are not a menu from which a petitioner picks the most flattering label.
Quashing on settlement: Gian Singh and Narinder Singh
A large slice of modern quashing practice is settlement quashing - the parties have made peace, and they ask the High Court to end a criminal case that the law would not otherwise let them compound. The leading authority is Gian Singh v. State of Punjab, (2012) 10 SCC 303. A three-Judge Bench drew a sharp distinction that every litigator must hold clearly.
Compounding under what was Section 320 CrPC is a creature of statute. Only listed offences can be compounded, and the consequence is acquittal. Quashing under inherent powers is different in kind. It is guided not by a list but by whether the ends of justice and the prevention of abuse of process justify ending the case. So the High Court can, in a proper case, quash a non-compoundable offence on the basis of a settlement, even though the parties could not have compounded it. The two powers are distinct, and the inherent power is wider in this respect.
But Gian Singh fenced the power. The Court held that offences that are not private in nature - heinous and serious crimes such as murder, rape, and dacoity, and offences under special statutes such as the Prevention of Corruption Act, and offences by public servants acting as public servants - cannot be quashed merely because the victim and the accused have settled. These offences have a public dimension. The State, not the complainant, is the real party in interest. A private compromise cannot extinguish a crime against society.
The complement to Gian Singh is Narinder Singh v. State of Punjab, (2014) 6 SCC 466, where the Supreme Court distilled working guidelines for when settlement quashing is appropriate. The dividing line it drew is between offences with a predominantly civil or private flavour - commercial disputes dressed up as cheating, family and matrimonial quarrels, partnership fall-outs - which are fit for quashing on settlement, and offences with a serious societal impact, which are not. The same passage in Narinder Singh confirms that offences of mental depravity, and crimes such as murder, rape and dacoity, cannot fittingly be quashed even if the victim or the victim’s family and the offender have settled the dispute.
The practical takeaway is a two-step filter. First, ask whether the offence is private in character or public in character. If it is genuinely private - a money matter, a matrimonial dispute, a neighbour’s quarrel - settlement quashing is on the table. Second, ask whether the settlement is genuine, voluntary, and free of coercion, and whether continuing the prosecution would serve any public purpose. If the answer to the public-purpose question is no, the case for quashing is strong. Matrimonial cases, including many under Section 498A and its misuse, are the staple of this jurisdiction precisely because they are so often private disputes weaponised through the criminal process.
Where the power stops
Inherent power is not unlimited power, and the failure mode of every quashing petition is asking the High Court to do something the inherent power cannot do. Five limits recur.
No mini trial. The court will not weigh evidence, resolve contradictions, or decide which version is true. As reaffirmed in Dharambeer Kumar Singh, disputed questions of fact are for the trial. If your petition depends on the Bench preferring your client’s account over the complainant’s, you are in the wrong forum.
Not a second appeal or a revision in disguise. The inherent power cannot be used to bypass the appellate and revisional hierarchy. If a remedy by appeal or revision exists and is efficacious, the High Court will usually send the litigant there. The power fills gaps; it does not duplicate routes the Sanhita already provides.
No power to recall or review its own order. This is now sharply stated. In State of Rajasthan v. Parmeshwar Ramlal Joshi, 2025 INSC 1205, the Supreme Court held that a criminal court has no power to recall or review its own judgment, and that Section 528 BNSS does not confer such a power. The only correction permitted is of a clerical or arithmetical error, under Section 403 BNSS (the successor to Section 362 CrPC). Inherent power cannot be the back door to reopening a final order on the merits.
No re-litigation by relabelling. The same 2025 judgment shut another door. Where a petition with identical prayers was earlier dismissed as withdrawn without liberty to re-agitate, a fresh petition seeking the same relief cannot be entertained simply by changing the statutory label to Section 528. As the CaseMine commentary on the ruling put it, that is a change of label with the substance unchanged, and the court will see through it.
No overriding an express statutory bar. Where the Sanhita or a special statute expressly bars a proceeding or prescribes a procedure, the inherent power yields. This is the sixth Bhajan Lal category restated as a limit. The power exists to prevent abuse and secure justice, not to defeat clear legislative choices.
A useful way to hold all this together: the inherent power is wide in its purpose but narrow in its method. It can reach a great variety of injustices, but only through means that do not turn the High Court into a trial court, an appellate court, or a court reviewing its own finality.
The savings clause and pending CrPC matters
The transition from CrPC to BNSS created a genuinely hard question that practitioners still face daily: when a case straddles 1 July 2024, which code governs the inherent-power petition? The answer turns on the repeal and savings clause, Section 531 of the BNSS.
Section 531 repeals the old CrPC but subject to a saving. Under Section 531(2)(a), any appeal, application, trial, inquiry or investigation pending immediately before 1 July 2024 is to be disposed of, continued, held or made in accordance with the CrPC, as if the CrPC had not been repealed. So it is a repeal subject to savings, not a clean wipe. The blog of Bharat Chugh has a careful walk-through of the savings and repeal clause for those who want the detail.
The dominant judicial line on FIRs is this. If an FIR was registered before 1 July 2024, the investigation that follows it counts as a pending investigation within Section 531(2)(a), so the subsequent investigation and even the trial are governed by the CrPC. The Rajasthan High Court took this view, holding that the inquiry and investigation in FIRs registered prior to the BNSS coming into force will be governed by the CrPC. On that logic, a quashing petition attacking such an FIR is properly filed under Section 482 of the CrPC, not Section 528 of the BNSS.
But the field is not settled. There is real divergence on whether every petition filed after 1 July 2024 must be filed under the BNSS, on the footing that the CrPC stood repealed on that date and the inherent power now lives only in Section 528. The Bombay High Court has leaned towards all applications on or after 1 July 2024 being governed by the BNSS, reasoning that once the CrPC is repealed, an inherent-power petition can only be sourced in the surviving provision. The Punjab and Haryana High Court found the question important enough to refer it to a larger Bench. The SCC Online analysis of the tug of war around 1 July 2024 captures how live this is across courts.
Until the larger Bench speaks, the safe drafting habit is twofold. State both provisions in the alternative - “Section 482 of the CrPC and/or Section 528 of the BNSS” - and set out in the petition the date of the FIR and the relevant High Court’s prevailing view. That way the petition does not fail on a pure labelling point, and the Bench can apply whichever code it considers correct. The substance of the inherent power is the same under either, so the relief does not change; only the citation does.
2025-26 Supreme Court rulings on Section 528
The first two years of BNSS practice have produced a small but useful body of Supreme Court authority that speaks directly to Section 528, rather than only by analogy to the old Section 482.
The most consequential is State of Rajasthan v. Parmeshwar Ramlal Joshi, 2025 INSC 1205, decided in October 2025. A two-Judge Bench addressed the scope of Section 528 head on and held two things that now bind practice. One, Section 528 does not give a criminal court power to recall or review its own order; only clerical or inadvertent errors may be corrected, under Section 403 BNSS. Two, a litigant cannot revive a withdrawn petition by refiling it under the inherent-power label. The decision is a deliberate set of guardrails on a power that, left unfenced, would corrode the finality of criminal orders.
The second is Imran Pratapgadhi v. State of Gujarat, 2025 SCC OnLine SC 678, which expands the power in a different direction. It confirms that a nascent stage of investigation is not a bar to quashing under Section 528, so long as the FIR on its face discloses no cognizable offence. Read together, the two cases show the Court doing what it has always done with inherent powers - widening the reach where injustice is plain, narrowing the method where finality is at stake.
The High Courts have added texture. The Karnataka High Court has shut the door on successive Section 528 petitions filed without any change in circumstances, and has treated quashing after a charge sheet has been filed as an exception rather than the norm. The Sikkim High Court has worked through the CrPC-or-BNSS applicability question in concrete cases. The common thread is that the courts are mapping the old jurisprudence onto the new section without losing the discipline that made the old jurisprudence workable.
For someone keeping a citation list current, the move is straightforward. The body of Section 482 authority - Bhajan Lal, Gian Singh, Narinder Singh, the mini-trial cases - remains good law and applies to Section 528 because the power is the same. The new BNSS-specific cases sit on top, refining the edges. None of the new rulings disturbs the foundational tests; they apply them under the new number.
CrPC 482 to BNSS 528: a practitioner’s map
Because so much of daily practice is reflex, the most useful thing this guide can do is give you a clean mapping table. The Vakeel360 cross-reference confirms the headline equivalence; what follows is the working version, with the related criminal-law renumbering that trips people up.
| Concept | CrPC, 1973 | BNSS, 2023 | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inherent powers of the High Court | Section 482 | Section 528 | Text identical save for “Sanhita” |
| Anticipatory bail | Section 438 | Section 482 | The number 482 now means bail, not inherent power |
| Court cannot alter its own judgment | Section 362 | Section 403 | Only clerical errors may be corrected |
| Repeal and savings | Section 484 (old code repealed) | Section 531 | Pending matters continue under CrPC |
| Compounding of offences | Section 320 | Section 359 | Distinct from inherent-power quashing |
A separate, conceptual table is worth keeping too, because it tells you what the inherent power can and cannot do regardless of section numbers.
| The power can | The power cannot |
|---|---|
| Quash an FIR that discloses no offence | Decide disputed facts or hold a mini trial |
| Quash a private-natured offence on genuine settlement | Quash heinous offences such as murder, rape, dacoity on settlement |
| Stop a malicious or vexatious prosecution | Override an express statutory bar |
| Give effect to an order under the Sanhita | Recall or review the court’s own order on merits |
| Secure the ends of justice in a gap left by the code | Substitute for an available appeal or revision |
If you internalise these two tables, you will rarely file the wrong petition or ask the High Court for relief it cannot grant. Most failed quashing petitions die not because the facts were weak but because the petitioner asked the inherent power to do something outside its method.
How to draft a Section 528 petition
The structure of a good quashing petition follows the jurisprudence. It is not a place for rhetoric. The Bench is asking one disciplined question, and your job is to answer it cleanly.
Open with the correct citation. First mention: “Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (corresponding to Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973).” If the FIR predates 1 July 2024, plead the date and, given the divergence discussed above, invoke Section 482 CrPC and/or Section 528 BNSS in the alternative.
State the relief with precision. Are you seeking to quash the FIR, the charge sheet, the proceedings, or a specific order? Each is different. Quashing after a charge sheet is treated as an exception, so if you are at that stage, say why your case is exceptional.
Pick your Bhajan Lal ground and stay in it. Identify which category fits - no offence disclosed, absurd allegations, mala fides, express bar - and argue that one. Petitions that scatter across all seven categories read as weak. Tie the ground to the actual contents of the FIR, quoted, not paraphrased.
Assume the allegations are true. Frame the argument as: even taking every allegation at face value, no offence is made out. The moment you argue the allegations are false, you have invited a mini trial and given the Bench a reason to send you to the trial court. The discipline of arguing on the assumption of truth is itself a signal that you understand the jurisdiction.
For settlement quashing, prove the offence is private and the settlement genuine. Annex the settlement, plead that it is voluntary and free of coercion, and show that no public purpose is served by continuing. Address Gian Singh and Narinder Singh directly and explain why your offence falls on the private side of the line.
Anticipate the limits. If there is an alternative remedy, explain why it is not efficacious. If a prior petition was withdrawn, disclose it and address Parmeshwar Ramlal Joshi. Candour with the Bench on the limits is more persuasive than hoping they will not notice.
A petition built this way does the court’s work for it. It identifies the one question, answers it within the method the inherent power allows, and closes the obvious exits the State will use to resist. That is what separates a quashing petition that gets admitted from one that gets dismissed at the threshold.
Frequently asked questions
Is BNSS Section 528 the same as CrPC Section 482?
In substance, yes. Section 528 of the BNSS reproduces the High Court’s inherent powers exactly as they stood in Section 482 of the CrPC, with the only change being “Sanhita” in place of “Code”. The three purposes - giving effect to orders under the Sanhita, preventing abuse of the process of any court, and securing the ends of justice - are word for word the same. Because the power is identical, the entire body of Section 482 case law, including Bhajan Lal, Gian Singh and Narinder Singh, continues to apply under Section 528.
Can a Sessions Court or Magistrate use inherent powers under Section 528?
No. The inherent power under Section 528 belongs to the High Court alone. Sessions Courts and Magistrates have only the powers the BNSS expressly gives them. This was true under Section 482 CrPC and remains true under Section 528 BNSS. If a subordinate court purports to exercise an inherent power of this kind, the order is open to challenge.
Which code do I use to quash an FIR registered before 1 July 2024?
There is a genuine split. The dominant view, taken by the Rajasthan High Court among others, is that an FIR registered before 1 July 2024 is a pending investigation saved by Section 531(2)(a) of the BNSS, so it continues under the CrPC and the quashing petition is properly filed under Section 482 CrPC. The Bombay High Court has leaned the other way, holding that applications filed after 1 July 2024 are governed by the BNSS. The Punjab and Haryana High Court has referred the question to a larger Bench. Until it is settled, plead both provisions in the alternative and state the FIR date.
Can heinous offences be quashed if the parties settle?
No. Following Gian Singh and Narinder Singh, serious and heinous offences - murder, rape, dacoity and the like - and offences with a public dimension such as corruption cannot be quashed merely because the victim and the accused have settled. These crimes have a societal impact, and the State, not the complainant, is the real party in interest. Settlement quashing is confined to offences that are predominantly private or civil in flavour.
Can the High Court hold a mini trial while deciding a quashing petition?
No. The High Court must read the FIR and material as they stand, assume the allegations are true, and ask only whether an offence is disclosed. It cannot weigh evidence or resolve disputed facts. The Supreme Court reaffirmed this in Dharambeer Kumar Singh v. State of Jharkhand, restoring a prosecution that had been quashed after the High Court strayed into a mini trial. Disputed questions of fact are for the trial court.
Can a High Court recall or review its own order under Section 528?
No. In State of Rajasthan v. Parmeshwar Ramlal Joshi, 2025 INSC 1205, the Supreme Court held that Section 528 BNSS does not confer any power to recall or review a criminal order. The only correction permitted is of a clerical or arithmetical error, under Section 403 BNSS. A litigant also cannot revive a petition that was withdrawn without liberty by refiling it under the inherent-power label.
Does it matter that investigation has only just begun?
Not necessarily. In Imran Pratapgadhi v. State of Gujarat, the Supreme Court held there is no absolute rule barring quashing at a nascent stage of investigation. If, on the face of the FIR, no cognizable offence is made out, the High Court may quash regardless of how early the investigation is. The test is whether an offence is disclosed and the nature of the offence, not a fixed procedural stage.
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