Crl.M.No.M-25631 of 2010 (O&M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Crl.M.No.M-25631 of 2010 (O&M) Date of Decision: September 1, 2010 Sultan Singh and another .....Petitioners v. State of Haryana and another .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Mr.Sudhir Kumar Hooda, Advocate for the petitioners. ...... RAM CHAND GUPTA, J.(Oral) Crl.M.No.45668 of 2010 Application is allowed subject to all just exceptions. Crl.M.No.M-25631 of 2010 The present petition filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. read with Section 438 Cr.P.C. is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioners in criminal complaint No.69 of 2005, dated 8.11.2005, Annexure P/1, under Sections 3(iv) and (v) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of atrocities) Act, 1989 (hereinafter to be referred as `SC & ST Act'), in which petitioners have been summoned by learned Sub Divisional Magistrate, Meham to face trial. I have heard learned counsel for the petitioner and have gone through the whole record carefully. Brief allegations against the petitioners-accused are that surplus land was allotted to the complainant by allotment authority, Rohtak, and the possession of the same was also delivered to him on 25.6.1979, vide rapat No.498. First instalment of Rs.610.65 was also deposited on 12.4.1977 by the complainant. The land was allotted to the complainant as he belongs to scheduled castes. However, petitioners alongwith co-accused forcibly cultivated the said land of the complainant depriving him of the benefits Crl.M.No.M-25631 of 2010 (O&M) -2- of the allotted land. Hence, prima facie case for offences under Sections 3(iv) and (v) of the SC & ST Act is made out. Section 18 of the SC & ST Act specifically bars release of an accused on anticipatory bail for any offence committed under the Act. Hence, in view of the bar created under Section 18 of the SC & ST Act, there is no merit in the present petition filed by petitioners- Sultan Singh and Ajmer for grant of anticipatory bail. The same is, hereby, dismissed. 1.9.2010 (Ram Chand Gupta) meenu Judge