JUDGMENT

K.S. Mudagal, J. - Learned High Court Government Pleader submits memo reporting service of notice to respondent No.2. Service of notice to respondent No.2 held sufficient. He is unrepresented.

2. Heard.

3. aggrieved by rejection of her petition for grant of anticipatory bail, the accused in Crime No.331/2021 of Periyapatna police station has preferred the above appeal.

4. On 18.12.2021, respondent No.2 filed the complaint before Periyapatna police against the appellant as per annexure-B alleging that on 17.12.2021 at 7.00 p.m. the appellant had employed scavenger for manually cleaning her toilet pit and that was reported in Vartha Bharathi Kannada daily newspaper. By such act, she has violated Section 6 of the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation act, 2013 ('the act' for short).

5. On that basis, Periyapatna police registered first information report as per annexure-a against the appellant for the offences punishable under Sections 5, 8 and 9 of the said act. She was arrested in the said case and learned Magistrate released her on bail as per the order annexure-C dated 19.12.2021.

6. On 20.12.2021, the Investigating Officer submitted requisitio