Supreme Court of India

Pramila Devi & Ors. v. The State of Jharkhand & Anr.

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Reported as [2025] 4 S.C.R. 1695
Bench Sudhanshu Dhulia and Ahsanuddin Amanullah JJ.
Decided 23 April 2025

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Issue for Consideration The Additional Judicial Commissioner took cognizance against one V and appellants on 13.06.2019 in SC/ST Case No.08/2017. Whether the Additional Judicial Commissioner while taking cognizance has to record detailed reasons for taking cognizance; whether the FIR (u/ss.498A, 406 and 420 of the Penal Code, 1860 and s.3(1)(iv) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989) itself was instituted with mala fide intention and was liable to be quashed. Headnotes† Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act,

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