CRM -M No. 35541 of 2009 Swaran Kaur and another vs. Balbir Singh and another Present: Mr.S.S.Tiwana , Advocate for the petitioners. *** This is a petition for anticipatory bail in a complaint under Section 3(x) of the Schedules Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. The sole contention of learned counsel for the petitioners is that this case has been foisted upon the petitioners by their enemies and that in fact the petitioners do not even know the complainant and, therefore, there is no question of committing an offence under the aforesaid Act. Learned counsel, however, is not in a position to deny that Section 438 Cr.P.C. is not applicable to offences under the said Act. In the circumstances learned counsel has restricted his prayer only to the extent that the petitioners shall appear before the Summoning Court on the date fixed and that their regular bail application should be decided immediately. In my opinion this is a fair request. In the circumstances this petition is disposed of with a direction that the Summoning Court shall, as far as possible, decide the bail application which may be filed by the petitioners on their appearance in response to the summons, on the same day. (AJAY TEWARI) JUDGE December 16, 2009 sunita