Case Law Analysis
|Delhi High Court
Knowledge of victim's caste suffices to frame SC/ST Act charge under Sec 3(1)(w) | Charge framing stage : Delhi HC
Delhi High Court held that knowledge of victim's caste suffices to frame charges under Section 3(1)(w) of the SC/ST Act. This lowers the threshold for invoking atrocity provisions at charge framing, impacting prosecutors and accused.