In a significant judgment, the Bombay High Court’s Aurangabad Bench, presided over by Justice R.M. Joshi, observed that the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, can be misused as a tool to harass individuals. The court granted anticipatory bail to the appellants Zaheer Abbas Ikram Sayyad and Laila Zaheer Sayyed, rejecting
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