VIBHU BAKHRU, J.

1. The petitioner has filed the present petition, inter alia, impugning the appointment of respondent no.3 (Sh Pankaj Kumar), as the Special Public Prosecutor for Special Court under the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (hereafter ‘SC/ST Act’), in Sessions case 27462/2016.

2. The petitioner states that he is the landlord of the premises bearing No. 165, Dr Mukherjee Nagar, Delhi-110009. He states that in the year 2008, he had leased a part of his property to a lady (hereafter ‘Ms K’) who entered the premises as a tenant and started residing in the property along with her brothers and sisters. The petitioner claims that there was a landlord-tenant dispute with regard to use of water, as the same was in short supply and this had led Ms K to file a false complaint against him at P.S. Mukherjee Nagar, on 03.05.2008.

3. On the complaint filed by Ms K, an FIR (being FIR No. 156 dated 03.05.2008) has been registered against the petitioner, inter alia, under the SC/ST Act. Thereafter, charges were framed against the petitioner and his family members on 08.07.2008, and the case is pending trial before the concerned court.

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