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Supreme Court stays arrest

of Trupti Desai in SC/ST


Atrocities case
28.5.2018

The Supreme Court today stayed the arrest of activist Trupti Desai in an SC/ST atrocities
case.

Desai and other co-accused in the case have approached the Supreme Court seeking
anticipatory bail in a criminal case filed against them in 2017 under various

Sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) as well as Sections 3(1)(r), 3(2)(va) and 6 of the
SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.

The Bombay High court had failed to grant relief to the petitioners prompting them to
approach the Supreme Court through Advocates Sushil Balwada, Kaushal
Yadav and Nagendra Singh.

The case of the petitioner is that the complainant in the case, who belongs to a Scheduled
Caste community, was allegedly collecting funds illegally in the name of

the organisation ‘Bhumata Brigade Sangathan’ which is run by Desai. When the petitioners
resisted these “illegal activities” of the complainant, they were “falsely implicated” in this
case.

An FIR alleging wrongful restraint, causing hurt and criminal intimidation was lodged in
Pune against the petitioners. This FIR also invoked provisions of the SC/ ST Act given that
the complainant belonged to the Mahar community.
According to the petitioners, the only allegation which relates to the provisions of the SC/ ST
Act, is a statement made by the petitioners,

“I run an Association and no Hindu Mahar should teach me.”

Submitting that no prima facie offence under Section 3 of the SC/ ST Act is made out against
the petitioners in the FIR, the petitioners have prayed for grant of anticipatory bail.

The vacation Bench of Justice L Nageswara Rao and Justice M Shabtanagoudar issued
notice in the petition and put a stay on the arrest of the petitioners in A SINGLE LINE
ORDER..

The prayer for anticipatory bail will now be considered in July when the court re-opens after
summer vacation.

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