1 APPLN-316.11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.316 OF 2011 The State of Maharashtra .... Applicant Vs. Kum. Sindu Tukaram Varekar .... Respondent Shri Rajesh More, APP, for the Applicant-State. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: AUGUST 01, 2011 P.C: This is an application for leave to file appeal against the acquittal of the respondent-Headmistress of a school of the offences punishable under Section 3(1)(x) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and Section 7(1) (d) of the Protection of Civil Rights Act. The first informant was stated to be working as a Peon in the said school. She had gone to the office of the respondent on 1-1-2008 at about 11:15 hours when the respondent is alleged to have abused the first informant filthily by referring to her caste. The incident was witnessed by Anjana Mane (PW-3) and Rupali 2 APPLN-316.11 Kognole (PW-4). The report in respect of the incident was given on 1-2-2008, that is, after a month. The learned Judge found that there was no explanation for the delay in filing the FIR and he also found that the first informant as well as the two eye-witnesses who supported her, namely Anjana Mane and Rupali Kognole, were aggrieved with the respondent-Headmistress because of some service disputes and therefore the learned Judge refused to believe their evidence. It cannot be said that the view taken by the learned Judge is perverse or improbable. Leave refused. Appeal dismissed. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)