Dalveer Bhandari, J. — Leave granted.

2. The appellant is the Headmistress in the Little Star School located at Gayatri Hills, Yousufguda, Hyderabad has preferred this appeal against the impugned judgment and order passed by the High Court of Judicature of Andhra Pradesh at Hyderabad in Criminal Petition No.2127 of 2006.

3. It may be pertinent to mention that her husband Mohd. Samiuddin and the appellant are being prosecuted for an offence under Section 3(1)(x) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (for short ‘the 1989 Act’).

4. The appellant filed a petition before the Andhra Pradesh High Court under Section, 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for quashing the proceedings in Crime No. 50 of 2006, Police Station Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad. The High Court, by the impugned judgment, has declined to quash the proceedings.

5. The brief facts which are necessary to dispose of this appeal are recapitulated as under :

A complaint was filed against the appellant and her husband Mohd. Samiuddin on 9.2.2006 before the Sub-Inspector of Police, Jubilee Hills Police Station, Hyderabad, which reads as under :

“I am to inform you that just