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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Schedule Caste & Schedule Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, S.3

2010(2) LAW HERALD (P&H) 980
IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA
Before
The Hon’ble Ms Justice Nirmaljit Kaur
CRA No. M 464-SB of 2009 (O&M)
Balwant Singh
v.
State of Punjab
{Decided on 17/02/2010}
For the Appellant: Mr. Raj Kumar Arya, Advocate.
For the Respondent State: Mr. B B S Teji, AAG, Punjab.
Schedule Caste & Schedule Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, S.3--Conviction--Compromise--Allegation levelled in complaint that appellant used contemptuous language--Parties compromised matter with intervention of respectable of village--Dispute totally personal in nature--Compromise accepted--Conviction set-aside--Appellant acquitted. (Para 7, 8 & 9)