K.K. SONAWANE, J.

1. Heard. Admit. The appeal is taken up for final hearing on merit with the consent of both parties.

2. Present appeal is directed against the impugned order of rebuffing the relief of pre-arrest bail of the appellants in Crime No. 187 of 2018 registered with Bori Police Station, Taluka Jintur, District Parbhani under Sections 354-A, 504, 506 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 3(1)(w)(i)(ii) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (hereinafter, referred to as "Act of 1989" for the sake or brevity). The appellants preferred present appeal by invoking remedy under Section 14-A(2) of the Act of 1989.

3. The prosecution case in nut-shell is that, on 19-12- 2018, the complainant Nilawatibai Maroti Jogdand visited the Police of Bori Police Station, Taluka Jintur, District Parbhani, and filed report that on 17-12-2018 in the night at about 9.15 p.m. she accompanied with her younger daughter Laxmi after enjoying the meal, both went to bed. But, somebody else knocked the chain of door of her house. She opened the door and saw that appellants Nitin Sampatrao Maske and Baliram Ganesh Raut were standing in front of door