JUDGMENT

Manoj Kumar Ohri, J. (ORAL)--The present bail applications have been filed under Section 438 Cr.P.C. read with Section 482 Cr.P.C. on behalf of the applicants seeking anticipatory bail in FIR No. 05/2021 registered under Sections 3 (1)(r)/3(1)(s) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (hereinafter referred to as the SC/ST Act) and Section 506 IPC at Police Station New Usmanpur, Delhi.

2. Learned counsel for the applicants submits that while the applicant-Sanjay Singh is the father, the applicant-Suraj Singh is his son. He submits that the applicants in the present case are falsely implicated on account of an underlying dispute with respect to dishonour of cheque. She further submits that while the initial cheque was for Rs.1,00,000/-, the complainant has altered the same by changing the figure from Rs.1,00,000/- to Rs.4,00,000/-.

3. Learned counsel for the applicants has further relied on the decision in Prathvi Raj Chauhan v. Union of India and Others reported as (2020) 4 SCC 727 to submit that the anticipatory bail is maintainable in a case under the SC/ST Act, provided the ingredients of the offence are not made out on