Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 625 · Decided 23 August 2024
Shajan Skaria v. The State of Kerala & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 625 · [2024] 8 S.C.R. 1086
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2622/2024
- Decided
- 23 August 2024
- Bench
- J.B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 500; CrPC Section 60A
Headnote
Whether Section 18 of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 imposes an absolute bar on the grant of anticipatory bail in cases registered under the said Act; when can it be said that a prima facie case is made out in a given FIR/complaint in question disclose commission of any offence under Section 3(1)(r) or under Section 3(1)(u) of the 1989 Act; whether mere knowledge of the caste identity of the complainant is sufficient to attract the offence under Section 3(1)(r) of the 1989 Act. Scheduled
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