INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday quashed a part of the first information report registered against three farmers,
belonging to Scheduled Caste hailing from Krishnayapalem in Guntur district.The single-judge bench headed by Justice M
Satyanarayana Murthy observed that registration of crime by the police on the basis of a complaint lodged by Ravi Babu against the
petitioners belonging to SC was a serious illegality
The court said that in the absence of any allegation to constitute criminal conspiracy, the proceedings against the petitioners for the
of the SC/ST Act as the accused belonging to SC, the court observed
The court also did not accept the offences like unlawful assembly punishable under Section 143 of IPC and also wrongful restraint punishable
under Section 340 of IPC and others as the petitioners were booked for such offences.However, the court observed that the petition was
partly allowed and permitted the police to proceed against the petitioners to investigate the crime for the offence punishable under Section
people parked a tractor across the Krishnayapalem bridge disrupting passage of vehicles on October 23, 2020, he was abused by caste and even
threatened to be trodden with the tractor.He named 11 persons in the complaint
Based on it, police booked them under Sections 120 (B), 143, 341, 506 read with 149 IPC and other sections of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled
Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989
Babu argued that registration of a crime against a SC based on a complaint lodged by another SC, was a grave illegality.
