Amal Kumar v. State of Jharkhand 2025 INSC 1402 - SC-ST Act
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Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 - Section 3- There is no offence as coming out under Section 3(1)(s) when there is no allegation that the casteist slur was made in a place within public view or that there was any member of the public present at the spot. (Para 10)
Case Info
Key Details
- Case name: Amal Kumar & Ors. v. The State of Jharkhand & Anr.
- Neutral citation: 2025 INSC 1402
- Coram: Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah; Justice K. Vinod Chandran
- Judgment date: December 09, 2025
- Disposition: Appeal allowed; FIR No.18 of 2022 quashed; High Court order set aside.
Statutes / Laws Referred
- Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989: Sections 3(1)(g) (wrongful dispossession) and 3(1)(s) (caste-based insults in public view).
- References to criminal procedure are implicit (FIR, investigation, trial), but no specific CrPC sections are cited in the text.
