Scheduled Caste & Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989–Sec. 3(1)(x)–Cognizance for the offence–Complaint was lodged with effect that the petitioner declined to accept the invitation of the complainant for lunch on the ground that she belongs to lower caste–Act was not seen by any person–Trial Court failed to exercise the jurisdiction vested in it for examining the correctness–Impugned order of taking cognizance quashed and set aside.
