JUDGMENT :

Anil Satyavijay Kilor, J.

1. Heard learned counsel for the appellants and the learned A.P.P. for the respondent No. 1/State. None for the respondent No. 2, though served.

2. ADMIT.

3. In this appeal order below Exh. 1, dated 13/08/2020 passed by learned Special Judge, Mehkar, District: Buldana in Anticipatory Bail Application No. 144 of 2020, thereby rejecting the application for grant of pre-arrest bail, filed under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in Crime No. 256 of 2020, dated 27/07/2020, registered with Police Station, Janefal, District: Buldana, for the offences punishable under Sections 143, 147, 149, 354, 324, 323, 504, 506 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3(1)(2), 3(1)(r), 3(1)(s), 3(1)(u), 3(1)(w), 3(1) (w)(i), 3(1)(w)(ii) and 3(2)(va) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (hereinafter referred to as "the Atrocities Act"), is under challenge.

4. It is the case of the prosecution that the complainant lodged a complaint on 27/07/2020 stating therein that he had been to Mandva Forest village to get some labour work and returned back at 08:00 a.m.. At that time, he saw his daughter Yamutai standing outsi