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Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Chapter III: Power Of Courts

Section 28 BNSS: Withdrawal of powers

Corresponding CrPC
Section 34 CrPC

Bare Act text

(1) The High Court or the State Government, as the case may be, may withdraw all or any of the powers conferred by it under this Sanhita on any person or by any officer subordinate to it.

(2) Any powers conferred by the Chief Judicial Magistrate or by the District Magistrate may be withdrawn by the respective Magistrate by whom such powers were conferred.

Text as enacted in the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 46 of 2023), in force from 1 July 2024. Source: India Code, Government of India.

In simple words

Allows the High Court or State Government to withdraw powers it has conferred on any person or by any subordinate officer. Powers conferred by a Chief Judicial Magistrate or District Magistrate may be withdrawn by that Magistrate.

Chapter III: Power Of Courts

  1. 21 Courts by which offences are triable
  2. 22 Sentences which High Courts and Sessions Judges may pass
  3. 23 Sentences which Magistrates may pass
  4. 24 Sentence of imprisonment in default of fine
  5. 25 Sentence in cases of conviction of several offences at one trial
  6. 26 Mode of conferring powers
  7. 27 Powers of officers appointed
  8. 28 Withdrawal of powers
  9. 29 Powers of Judges and Magistrates exercisable by their successors-in-office