Yes — and the Gujarat High Court at Ahmedabad is one of the more active High Courts in India in exercising this inherent power. Under Section 528 of the BNSS (the old Section 482 CrPC), the Gujarat HC can quash an FIR, chargesheet, or any criminal proceedings to prevent abuse of the process of any court and to secure the ends of justice. For people from Vadodara, the Gujarat HC in Ahmedabad is the forum where this petition is filed.

The governing framework is the Supreme Court's decision in State of Haryana v. Bhajan Lal, whose categories the Gujarat HC applies in every quashing case. The recognised grounds where quashing is appropriate include: the FIR allegations, taken entirely at face value, disclose no cognisable offence; the allegations are so improbable and inherently contradictory that no reasonable person could conclude there is ground to proceed; there is a clear legal bar to the prosecution; or the FIR is manifestly actuated by malice and has been registered solely to harass the accused in a private dispute. The Gujarat HC has a particular body of case law on quashing FIRs that arise from civil-criminal overlap — where a commercial dispute, a cheque default, or a property disagreement has been converted into a criminal case — and in these matters the court examines whether the criminal process is being used as a pressure tactic rather than a genuine prosecution.

The Gujarat HC can also quash proceedings in private disputes where parties have genuinely settled, following Gian Singh v. State of Punjab, if allowing the prosecution to continue would serve no public purpose. The petition is filed at the Gujarat HC in Ahmedabad, notice goes to the State of Gujarat and the complainant, and the court may grant interim protection from coercive action while the matter is heard. One important 2025 clarification: the Supreme Court has confirmed that once the Magistrate takes cognizance of the offence, the correct remedy to quash is Section 528 BNSS rather than Article 226 of the Constitution — your petition must be framed under the right provision. The criminal advocates at the Vadodara panel of Aapka Legal Advice can assess whether your FIR falls within the recognised quashing categories and frame the petition for the Gujarat HC accordingly.