Bombay High Court Quashes FIR Against Doctor in SC/ST Act Case — Allegations of Caste-Based Insult Found Baseless as Incident Occurred in Private Hospital Cabin, Not in Public View. Court holds that for an offence under Section 3(1)(x) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, the insult must be in a place within public view, and mere use of caste name without intent to insult does not attract the Act.
2 Mar 2017The applicant, Dr. Shivanand Shivraj Biradar, the Medical Superintendent of a Rural Hospital in Murud, Latur, filed a criminal application under Secti...






