(1.) Heard.
(2.) This is an appeal in terms of Sec. 14A of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, raising a challenge to the order of rejection of regular bail by Special Judge, Mehkar, dtd. 9/3/2023 passed below Exh.6 in Special Atrocity Case No.10/2023.
(3.) At the instance of a first information report (FIR) lodged by the father of injured, a crime came to be registered bearing Crime No.228/2022, with Lonar Police Station, District Buldhana, for the offences punishable under Ss. 307, 341, 143, 147, 148, 149 and 323 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and under Ss. 3(1)(r) , 3(1)(s), 3(1)(v) and 3(2)(va) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.