LAWS(P&H)-2022-4-147

BALWANT SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

Decided On April 20, 2022
BALWANT SINGH Appellant
V/S
STATE OF PUNJAB Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Aggrieved by the dismissal of his bail under sec. 438 Cr.P.C, the accused has come up before this court by filing an appeal under sec. 14-A of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, (SCSTPOA), seeking bail.

(2.) The appellant had filed a bail application before the Court of learned Additional Sessions Judge/Special Court, Mansa which was dismissed on 18/1/2022.

(3.) In Prathvi Raj v. Union of India, AIR 2020 SC 1036, a three-judge bench of Supreme Court read down S. 18 by declaring as follows,