Discharge of offender on submission of apology is prescribed in the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita,…

Section 387 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (formerly section 348 CrPC) allows a court that has punished an offender for contempt under section 384, or forwarded him to a Magistrate for trial under section 385, to discharge him or remit the punishment "on his submission to the order or requisition of such Court, or on apology being made to its satisfaction".

Section 378 deals with delivery of a person of unsound mind to the care of a relative or friend, section 429 with certifying a High Court order on appeal to the lower court, and section 504 with the procedure where no claimant appears for seized property within six months.