Supreme Court dismisses Uran’s atrocities’ appeal case

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal of Leena Vivek Masal and Manisha Uday Sonar against the Bombay High Court’s February 2013 ruling and directed Uran’s fast court judicial magistrate that had issued them summons back in 2008 to expeditiously decide the case on merits in accordance with law.

The summons were issued on a complaint by the Maharashtra Government, seeking prosecution of the two for commission of offences under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. The complaint is still pending before the magistrate. As such, the Bench of R K Agrawal and Abhay Manohar Sapre held that it will not be proper for it to interfere when the appellants would get full opportunity to raise all factual and legal pleas, file reply and raise all pleas and adduce evidence while contesting the complaint on merit.

It noted that the magistrate of Uran (Navi Mumbai) had passed only an interim order in exercise of its discretionary powers finding prima facie case to entertain the complaint and as such it cannot be interfered by the Apex Court under its appellate jurisdiction under Article 136.