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Central Act · India · CHAPTER XXXVII — Irregular Proceedings

Section 511 BNSS Finding or sentence when reversible by reason of error, omission or irregularity

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 · Edition: User-supplied Law Library BNSS page, attributed to India Code as on 6 October 2025; imported 6 November 2026

(1) Subject to the provisions hereinbefore contained, no finding, sentence or order passed by a Court of competent jurisdiction shall be reversed or altered by a Court of appeal, confirmation of revision on account of any error, omission or irregularity in the complaint, summons, warrant, proclamation, order, judgment or other proceedings before or during trial or in any inquiry or other proceedings under this Sanhita, or any error, or irregularity in any sanction for the prosecution, unless in the opinion of that Court, a failure of justice has in fact been occasioned thereby.

(2) In determining whether any error, omission or irregularity in any proceeding under this Sanhita, or any error, or irregularity in any sanction for the prosecution has occasioned a failure of justice, the Court shall have regard to the fact whether the objection could and should have been raised at an earlier stage in the proceedings.

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Judgments on Section 511

LOK 2026 (3) SC 255 · Supreme Court of India

Sandeep Yadav v. Satish

Equivalent citations: 2026 INSC 301

ActsCode of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Sections 211, 212, 213, 215, 228, 241, 242, 311, 313, 317, 464, 465 and 482); Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Sections 147, 148, 149, 120B, 302 and 307); Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1932 (Section 7)

An unsigned charge, where the accused knew the accusations and fully defended themselves, is a curable irregularity under Sections 215 and 464 CrPC; a fresh trial after fourteen years and the death of eyewitnesses was unjustified.