Full Judgment
(Prayer: Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, praying to direct the learned Principal District and Sessions Court, (PCR) Dindigul to consider the bail application of the petitioners / accused to be filed in Crime No.105 of 2016 on the file of the respondent police and to accept their surrender on the same day on merits.)
1. This petition has been filed, seeking to direct the learned Principal District and Sessions Court, (PCR) Dindigul, to consider the bail application of the petitioners on the same day of surrender and dispose of the same on the same date on merits and in accordance with law in Crime No.105 of 2016.
2. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners have been implicated in this case for the alleged offences under Sections 147, 148, 324, 506(ii) IPC r/w 3(2)(Va) of SC/ST Act in Crime No.105 of 2016 and that in view of the specific bar under Section 18 of the said Act, the petitioners cannot move any anticipatory bail application and therefore, the petitioners have come forward with the said prayer.
3. Learned Government Advocate (Criminal side) takes notice for the respondent.
4. Considering the submissions of both sides and also considering the nature of the prayer in this case in view of the specific bar under Section 18 of the S.C. and S.T. (Prevention of Atrocities) Act that the petitioners cannot move any anticipatory bail, the learned Principal District and Sessions Court, (PCR) Dindigul, is directed to accept the surrender of the petitioners and consider their bail applications, in the event of the petitioners filing such petitions in Crime No.105 of 2016 on the file of the respondent police, and dispose of the same on merits and in accordance with law on the same day.
With this observation, this petition is disposed of accordingly.