Supreme Court of India
Prathvi Raj Chauhan v. Union of India & Others
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Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 – s.18A – Challenge to – Petitioners challenged s.18A which was enacted owing to the judgment of Supreme Court in Dr. Subhash Kashinath case reported as [2018] 4 SCR 877, mainly because of direction nos.(iii) to (v) contained in para 83 inter alia w.r.t holding preliminary inquiry for registration of FIR, necessity to obtain approval of the appointing authority concerning arrest of a public servant and of the SSP in other cases – Union of India filed review petitions – Allowed – Direction nos. (iii) to (v) recalled…
Authorities it was built on
- 1961 Abhiraj Kuer v. Debendra Singh
- 2013 Lalita Kumari v. Govt. of U.P. and Ors.
- 1985 Olga Tellis & Ors. v. Bombay Municipal Corporation & Ors. Etc.
- 1981 Francis Coralie Mullin v. The Administrator, Union Territory of Delhi & Ors.
- 1983 S. Kumar v. The Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies and Others
- 1995 State of M.P. and Anr. v. Ram Kishna Balothia and Anr.
- 1993 Raghunathrao Ganpatrao Etc. Etc. v. Union of India
- 2018 Dr. Subhash Kashinath Mahajan v. The State of Maharashtra and Anr.
- 2012 Vilas Pandurang Pawar & Anr. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.
- 2012 Kishore Samrite v. State of U.P. & Ors.
- 2007 Divisional Controller, G.S.R.T.C. v. Kadarbhai J. Suthar
- 2011 Nandini Sundar and Ors. v. State of Chattisgarh
- 2016 National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors.
Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Kiran v. Rajkumar Jivraj Jain & Anr.
- 2024 Shajan Skaria v. The State of Kerala & Anr.
- 2024 Om Rathod v. The Director General of Health Services & Ors.
- 2024 Sukanya Shantha v. Union of India & Ors.
- 2024 Dhanraj Aswani v. Amar S. Mulchandani & Anr.
- 2022 Janhit Abhiyan v. Union of India
- 2022 Aishat Shifa v. The State of Karnataka & Ors
Of those, 2 relied on · 5 referred to
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