Lucknow. The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court, in one of its important orders, has given the opinion to the state government that in cases registered under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act (SC-ST Act), compensation should be given to the victim only after the conviction of the accused. The court said that we are seeing this trend every day that after getting compensation in cases registered under the SC-ST Act, the victims settle with the accused.
This order was passed by a single bench of Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh during the hearing on the petition filed by Israr alias Israr Ahmed and others. The petitioners had demanded the quashing of the charge sheet filed against them under the SC-ST Act in the special court of Rae Bareli district and the entire trial. The petitioners said that they have reached a settlement with the plaintiff in this matter. The plaintiff also supported the petitioners and said that there should be a settlement.
The court accepted the petition. Also said that in this case, the plaintiff has received 75 thousand rupees as compensation from the state government. The example of the victim making peace with the accused after getting the compensation money under the SC-ST Act is coming before this court every day.
In this way, the money of the tax payers is being misused by distributing the compensation. Therefore, it would be appropriate that the compensation should be provided to the victim only on the conviction of the accused under the SC-ST Act, and not on the registration of FIR or the filing of charge sheet.
The court has also said in its order that in cases where compensation has been paid and the chargesheet has been dismissed by the High Court on the basis of the agreement between the plaintiff and the accused, in such cases the government will pay the amount of compensation to the plaintiff or the victim. free to withdraw.