1. This criminal petition is filed under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure seeking anticipatory bail to the petitioner, who is accused in FIR No.160 of 2013 on the file of Khammam I Town Police Station for an offence under Section 3(i)(x) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (for short ‘the Act’).

2. I have heard Sri C. Ramachandra Raju, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor representing the State.

3. The petitioner is the maternal uncle of the informant/de facto complainant, she married a person belonging to scheduled caste professing Christianity. On 14.04.2013 the informant went to the house of the petitioner along with her husband. According to her, on seeing her and her husband, the petitioner abused her and her husband in the name of caste and religion. She did not mention the actual utterances made by the petitioner in the first information report. The de facto complainant belongs to Brahmin community and she married a person belonging to scheduled caste. The petitioner, who is no other than the maternal uncle of the de facto complainant presumably, belong