JABALPUR, India, June 8 -- Madhya Pradesh High Court issued the following judgment/order on May 8:

1. Being aggrieved by the order dated 28.01.2025 passed by the learned Single Judge in WP No.6877/2019, the writ petitioners have filed the instant appeal.

2. The writ petitioners/appellants herein challenged the FIR (AnnexureP/19 to the writ petition) and submitted that since the appellants No.1 and 2 belong to Scheduled Tribe, therefore, the provisions of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (for short "the SC/ST Act") are not applicable qua the appellants No.1 and 2. Moreover, the FIR should not have been registered even against the appellant No.3 because there is no provision in the Juvenile...