Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 132 · Decided 31 January 2025
Karuppudayar v. State REP. BY the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Lalgudi Trichy & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 132 · [2025] 1 S.C.R. 1381
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 496/2025
- Decided
- 31 January 2025
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 482
Headnote
Whether the incident in question occurred at a place which can be termed to be a place within public view; whether the allegations in the FIR constitute an offence either under Section 3(1)(r) or under Section 3(1)(s) of and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 - ss.3(1)(r) or Section 3(1)(s) - "any place within public view" - As per the complainant when he was in his office
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