1. The accused - appellant has filed this appeal under Section S.14A(2) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (for short "the Act") against the impugned order dated 12.01.2017 passed by the Special Judge (Atrocities) Panna in Bail Application No.52/2017, whereby the learned Special Judge dismissed an application filed by the accused - appellant under S.438 of the Cr.P.C.

2. The brief facts of the prosecution case for adjudication of this appeal are that on 13.12.2016 at about 7:48 p.m. complainant - respondent No.2 Ranjeet Kumar Kori made an oral FIR at Police Station Shahnagar of Panna district stating that on the self - same day at about 5:30 p.m., he and his wife were standing nearby the house of one Mama Panda situated in village Devri. At that time, accused - appellant Chhaila Shukla approached him, abused him by saying "Madarchod" and asked him as to why he had not given him a lift on his motorcycle on previous day. Thereafter, he started beating him with a stick. As a result, he sustained an injury in his left hand. He ran away from the place of occurrence towards the school of the village, wherefrom he informed his father Pre