Supreme Court of India
Ramawatar v. State of Madhya Pradesh
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What the Court ordered
We are of the opinion that it would not be incorrect to categorise the occurrence as one being overarchingly private in nature, having only subtle undertones of criminality, even though the provisions of a special statute have been attracted in the present case.
Judgment, page 14
From the headnote
Constitution of India: Art.142 – Prosecution case w as that there was property dispute between the two neighbou rs appellant and complainant – Complaint was filed under SC/ST Act against the appellant that he abused complainant with repeat ed reference to her caste – Courts below convicted the appellant u nder SC/ST Act – In the instant appeal, complainant filed an a pplication for compromise – Held: The record manifests that there was an undeniable pre-existing civil dispute between the p arties – Thus, the genesis of the deprecated incident was civil/prop erty dispute – Nothing on record
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Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Madduri Gangaraju @ Babu Rao v. Madduri Sunanda & Others
- 2024 Suraj Singh Gujar & Anr. v. The State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors.
- 2023 Sri Gulam Mustafa v. The State of Karnataka & Anr.
Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to · 1 mentioned
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