Dasharat Sahu vs State Of Chhattisgarh 2024 INSC 68 – S 3 SC-ST Act – Outraging Modesty – Acquittal

Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes(Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 ; Section 3(1)(xi) – Offence of outraging the modesty should be committed with the intention that the victim belonged to the Scheduled Caste categoryt the offence of outraging the modesty should be committed with the intention that the victim belonged to the Scheduled Caste category – As per the FIR and the sworn testimony of the prosecutrix, the prosecutrix/complainant was engaged for doing household jobs in the house of the accused appellant who tried to outrage her modesty while the prosecutrix/complainant was doing the household chores – Even from the highest allegations of the prosecutrix, the offending act was not committed by the accused with the intention that he was doing so upon a person belonging to the Scheduled Caste – Referred to Masumsha Hasanasha Musalman Vs. State of Maharashtra 2000(3) SCC 557 .

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