The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that criminal proceedings under the SC-ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act are not tainted simply because the magistrate took cognizance and referred the case to the Special Court. The bench of Justices MR Shah and Aniruddha Bose observed that the addition of the second proviso to Section 14 of the
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