Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 157 · Decided 10 February 2020
Prathvi Raj Chauhan v. Union of India & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 157 · [2020] 2 S.C.R. 727
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 1015/2018
- Decided
- 10 February 2020
- Bench
- ARUN MISHRA, VINEET SARAN, S. RAVINDRA BHAT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 438, 482; Constitution Article 14, 15, 17, 21, 23, 24
Headnote
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 - s.18A - Challenge to - Petitioners challenged s.18A which was enacted owing to the judgment of Supreme Court in Dr. Subhash Kashinath case reported as [2018] 4 SCR 877, mainly because of direction 83 inter alia w.r.t holding preliminary inquiry for registration of FIR, necessity to obtain approval of the appointing authority concerning arrest of a public servant and of the SSP in other cases - Union of India filed review petitions - Allowed - Direction nos. (iii) to (v)
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