1 APPR 71-10 Anand IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL REVISION APPLICATION(ST) NO.167 OF 2010 WITH CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.71 OF 2010 Lahanu Damu Pathare .Applicant V/s. Bharat Shah & anr. .Respondents Mr.Nitin Pradhan i/b. Ms.S.D.Khot, Advocate, for the Applicant Mrs.P.P.Bhosale, APP, for Respondent No.2 - State CORAM : R.C.CHAVAN, J. DATE : 10TH JANUARY, 2011 P.C. . Heard the learned Counsel for the respective parties. 2. This is an application filed by the applicant for quashing and setting aside the Judgment and Order passed by the learned Special Judge for Greater Mumbai in Special Case No.14 of 2007 dated 20th August, 2009. Criminal Revision Application is taken up for 2 APPR 71-10 admission hearing. The learned Trial Judge has acquitted respondent No.1 of the offence punishable under Section 3(1)(x) of the Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities Act) holding among other things that respondents would have no reason to know that the person, who was being abused, the first informant, was an Adivasi belongs to Scheduled Tribe. It cannot be said that the reason is erroneous. The Judgment does not call for interference in the exercise of writ jurisdiction. 3. Criminal Revision Application is rejected. 4. In view of rejection of Criminal Revision Application, Criminal Application No. 71 of 2010 does not survive and the same is disposed of accordingly. (R.C.CHAVAN, J.) 3 APPR 71-10