JUDGMENT/ORDER

VIBHA KANKANWADI, J. - Present Appeal has been filed by the appellant under Sec. 14-A(2) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (for short "the Atrocities Act") to challenge the order of rejection of anticipatory bail by the learned Special Judge under the Atrocities Act / Additional Sessions Judge-5, Parbhani, dtd. 20/3/2023.

2. The prosecution story is that the present respondent No.2, who is a major married lady, resides with her husband and two children. Her husband and she herself were doing the work of sugar cane cutting since last two years. They had gone to village Tura in October 2021 and completed the work by the end of February 2022. One tractor was engaged for the work of transporting sugar cane after it is cut till it is taken to sugar factory. The present appellant - accused was driving the said tractor. Accused had knowledge about the fact that respondent No.2 / informant is member of Scheduled Caste. In the month of January 2022 around 8.00 p.m., the accused had caught hold of the hand of the informant with ill-eye and told that he likes her. When informant told that she would inform the said act to her hus