JUDGMENT

Ravindra Maithani, J. - Petitioners seek quashing of an FIR No. 2 of 2020, under Sections 323, 504, 506 and 436 IPC and 3 (1) (X) of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (for short 'the Act'), Patwari Circle Ajmer Walla-4, District Pauri Garhwal.

2. Heard learned counsel for the parties through video conferencing.

3. According to the FIR the petitioner Sandeep Singh abused and set the cowshed/stable of the informant ablaze, he also pelted stones on the informant and her son Ajay Kumar; he dragged the informant, due to which, the informant sustained injuries on her knees; the petitioner Sandeep Singh also abused the informant with caste colour remarks. Earlier also, the petitioner Sandeep Singh had done such acts, which were subsequently compromised. At the end of the report, it is also recorded that the petitioner Mahesh Kumar was also with the petitioner Sandeep.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners would submit that FIR is false; there is no date and time mentioned in it; petitioner Mahesh belongs to the scheduled caste category, therefore, offences under the Act cannot be made out against him; a place for horses and cow was set to