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The learned CJM had convicted the respondent Sajid Khan for offences under Section 452, 323 and 326 IPC. The appellate court allowed the appeal and acquitted the respondent from all the charges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Initially the complainant had preferred a revision against the impugned judgment but thereafter, moved an application for treating the revision to be an appeal under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/tA2pfT3N\">Section 14-A(2) of the Scheduled Castes and the Schedule Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989<\/a> (the SC\/ST Act) because the judgment under challenge was passed by the Special Judge, SC\/ST Act Cases, Pali.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The High Court was of the opinion that though on a plain reading of Section 14-A of the SC\/ST Act, it would appear that any order passed by the Special Court or an Exclusive Special Court would be appealable under Section 14-A of the Act, yet, it has to be considered whether the appeal would lie even if the order comes to be passed by a Special Judge in the capacity of an Additional Sessions Judge in a case that did not involve the offence under the SC\/ST Act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court further discussed that ex facie, the provisions of the SC\/ST Act were introduced to govern cases registered for the offences under the SC\/ST Act and essentially the Sessions Judge or the Additional Sessions Judge, as the case may be, acts as Presiding Officer of Special Court for trying the offences under the SC\/ST Act. 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