Supreme Court of India

Asmathunnisa v. State of A.P. Represented by the Public Prosecutor, High Court of A.P., Hyderabad & Another

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Reported as [2011] 3 S.C.R. 1116
Bench Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma JJ.
Decided 29 March 2011

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3 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

From the headnote

Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 - s. 3(1)(x) - Punishment for offences of atrocities against a member of SC/ST - Appellant's husband speaking offending words by naming caste against the complainant in presence of his wife, when the complainant himself was not present - Incident took place at the residence of complainant - Prosecution of the appellant and her husband uls. 3 (1)(x) - Petition u/s. 482 Cr.P. . by the appellant - Dismissed by the High Court - On appeal held:· For offence u/s. 3(1 )(x), the public must view the person being insulted

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to · 2 mentioned

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