Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989

Six persons were charged with offences under Sections 452, 323 read with 34, and 376(2)(g) of the Indian Penal Code for abducting and raping a woman. The prosecutrix identified some of the accused by hearing them address each other by names, but the appellant, Arjun Singh, was not apprehended at the scene and no test i…

The prosecution alleged that Bal Kishan, along with others, forcibly dragged the prosecutrix to a forest and raped her. The trial court convicted the accused based on the testimonies of the prosecutrix, her son and an elderly neighbour, despite finding that the test identification parade conducted by the magistrate did…

The respondent, Gita Ram, was charged under Section 376 of the IPC and Section 3 of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. The case was committed by a magistrate to a Sessions Court that had been designated as a Special Court for offences under the SC/ST Act, and that Court trie…