ORDER :

Heard.

1. The applicant has preferred this application under Section 438 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 for grant of anticipatory bail as she apprehends her arrest in connection with Crime No.651/2022 for the offence punishable under Section 10 (1) of the Chhattisgarh Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes And Other Backward Classes (Regulation of Social Status Certification) Act, 2013 (for short, “the Act, 2013”) registered at Police Station- Mungeli, District – Mungeli, Chhattisgarh.

2. As per the prosecution story, a social status certificate of Scheduled Tribe was issued in favour of the applicant by the competent authority on 17.07.2020. A complaint was made by one Sant Kumar Netam and Ramesh Khusro making allegation that the applicant does not belong to Scheduled Tribe category and the social status certificate issued in her favour is illegal. On 16.01.2022, social status certificate of applicant was placed under suspension by the district level caste scrutiny committee and later on, matter was referred to the High Power Certification Scrutiny Committee, (for short, 'The Committee') where after full fledged enquiry vide order 18/23-06-2021, the social status certificate