Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989 Archives

Bail to accused of deprived scheduled caste in SCST Act case

Punjab & Haryana HC grants bail in SC/ST Act case; Questions applicability of Act against accused belonging to deprived scheduled caste

In the present case, the accused belonged to the Deprived Scheduled Caste category and was charged with voluntarily causing simple as well as grievous injuries to the person also belonging to Scheduled Caste category by criminally trespassing into his premises.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Does ‘Caste based insult’ include calling person belonging to Scheduled Caste or Tribe “Bewakoof”, “Murkh”, “Chor”? Supreme Court answers

The Supreme Court observed that it is desirable that before an accused is subjected to a trial for alleged commission of offence under section 3(1)(x), the utterances made by him in any place within public view are outlined, if not in the F.I.R., but at least in the charge-sheet so as to enable the court to ascertain whether the charge sheet makes out a case of an offence.