Applications under S. 482, Cr P C

A landlord and a tenant in Dadar fall out over a rent agreement. The landlord’s lawyer advises a shortcut: lodge a police complaint for cheating, so the tenant will be frightened into leaving. The FIR is registered, though the papers show nothing but a civil quarrel. The tenant cannot wait years for the criminal case to fail on its own. Is there a way to ask the High Court to end the case now, before trial? There is, and students of the old Code will know it by a famous number, s.482.

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Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 (CrPC), which saved the inherent powers of the High Court to give effect to an order, to prevent abuse of the process of any court or to secure the ends of justice, is now s.528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 (BNSS); an application under it is filed only in the High Court, most often to quash an FIR, a complaint or a proceeding.

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