ORDER :

1. By way of the present appeal under Section 14-A of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (for short the ‘Act 1989’) the appellant- original accused has prayed to release him on regular bail in connection with FIR being C.R. No. 11198015231655 of 2023 registered with Bortalav Police Station, Bhavnagar.

2. The brief facts leading to the filing of the present appeal are as under:

2.1 The FIR in question came to be registered at the instance of one Geetaben Kishorbhai Maru. The complainant has stated that about 6.00 p.m. in the evening when she had gone to purchase bidi for her husband, at that time the complainant saw the present appellant, his friend and two other persons armed with iron pipe and they were abusing her and the present appellant and his friend Rohan informed her to settle the dispute that about three years ago an FIR which was registered by her son against the present appellant. All these four persons started assaulting the complainant with the iron pipe and damaged the CCTV at the shop and the complainant was shouting. On hearing the shouts, the husband and daughter of the complainant arrived and these four persons esca