1 Heard.

2 Admit.

3 Heard finally by consent of parties.

4 By this appeal, the appellants are challenging the Order dated 27/11/2018 passed by the learned Special Judge and Additional Sessions Judge, Malshiras rejecting the application for anticipatory bail bearing Criminal Miscellaneous Application No.235 of 2018. At the instance of First Informant respondent No.2/Jagannath Torane Crime No.524 of 2018 came to be registered against present appellants with Police Station, Akluj on 23/11/2018 for offences punishable under Sections 3(1)(r) and (s) as well as Section 3(2)(va) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Atrocities Act' for the sake of brevity), under Section 7 (1)(d) of the Protection of Civil Rights, 1955 and under Section 506 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code . Concerned police officer has also invoked provisions of repealed Section 3(1)(x) of the Atrocities Act.

5 The learned Counsel for the appellants/accused argued that the FIR in question is a counter-blast by the First Informant and his associate Babasaheb Shendage for the reason that on 22/11/2018, employee of appellan