1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 1891 OF 2007 Chandrajit Sankathaprasad Singh & Ors. ... Petitioners. Versus The State of Maharashtra. ... .... Respondent. Mr. P.M.Pradha for the Petitioners. Mrs.A.S.Pai, APP for the State. CORAM : BILAL NAZKI and S. A. BOBDE, JJ. DATED : 9TH JANUARY, 2008. P.C.: The petitioners have challenged the F.I.R. registered under CR No.II- 74/2007 by Dombivali, Ram Nagar Police Station under various offences including the offences under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and also under the Protection of Civil Rights Act. The complainant had also filed earlier complaint as she had been abused in the name of her caste. Thereafter again a complaint is filed with same sort of allegations. It may be true or may not be true, but a specific allegation has been made by the complainant that on a particular day she was abused in the name of her caste. She belongs to “Kori” 2 community which is a scheduled caste community. Learned Counsel for the petitioner also submits that the complainant belongs to Uttar Pradesh and Kori community is scheduled caste in Uttar Pradesh and not in Maharashtra. 2. Learned APP has shown us a letter received from the Registry Officer of the Divisional Caste Scrutiny Committee, Mumbai. According to which Kori community is a scheduled caste even in Maharashtra in terms of the Presidential Order. As such, we do not find this is a case for quashing of F.I.R. Writ petition is, accordingly, dismissed. 3. All the defences taken by the petitioners here may be taken during the trial. Dismissal of this petition should not be taken as an expression of opinion by us towards the merits of the case. Sd/- (BILAL NAZKI, J.) Sd/- (S. A. BOBDE, J.)