JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 of Cr.PC to call for the records pertaining to impugned FIR dated 06.11.2017 registered against the petitioner in Crime No.349 of 2017, pending on the file of the 1st respondent and quash the same as illegal, arbitrary, abuse of process and without jurisdiction.)

This is yet another case which has come up for consideration before this Court where on the one side, the accused is claiming that Scheduled Caste and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, (hereinafter called as the Act), is being misused by giving a false complaint and on the other side, the victim claims that she has been subjected to economic boycott, social boycott and thereby, an atrocity has been committed against her, which is punishable under Section 3 of the Act.

2. The petitioner was working as the Vice Chancellor of Bharathiyar University. The Defacto Complainant is a Doctorate in Bio-Technology and she applied for the post of Assistant Professor in the Department of Bio-Technology at Bharathiyar University. According to the defacto complainant, this post was ear-marked for SC Arunthathiyar Women candidate. According to the