Supreme Court of India
Ramawatar v. State of Madhya Pradesh
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What the Court ordered
We are of the opinion that the overriding objective of the SC/ST Act would not be overwhelmed if the present proceedings are quashed.
Judgment, page 14
From the headnote
Constitution of India: Art.142 – Prosecution case was that there was property dispute between the two neighbours appellant and complainant – Complaint was filed under SC/ST Act against the appellant that he abused complainant with repeated reference to her caste – Courts below convicted the appellant under SC/ST Act – In the instant appeal, complainant filed an application for compromise – Held: The record manifests that there was an undeniable pre-existing civil dispute between the parties – Thus, the genesis of the deprecated incident was civil/property dispute – Nothing on record indicated…
Authorities it was built on
- 1991 K. Veeraswami v. Union of India and Others
- 1998 Supreme Court Bar Association v. Union of India
- 2020 Hitesh Verma v. The State of Uttarakhand & Anr.
- 2004 Bankat and Anr. v. State of Maharashtra
- 1999 Surindra Nath Mohanthy and Anr. v. State of Orissa
- 2021 Ramgopal & Anr. v. The State of Madhya Pradesh
- 1999 Ram Lal and Anr. v. State of Jammu and Kashmir
Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Madduri Gangaraju @ Babu Rao v. Madduri Sunanda & Others
- 2024 Suraj Singh Gujar & Anr. v. The State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors.
- 2025 Mange Ram v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- 2025 Navneesh Aggarwal v. The State of Haryana
- 2023 Sri Gulam Mustafa v. The State of Karnataka & Anr.
Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to · 3 mentioned
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