1. These criminal appeals U/S.14(A) of the SC
& ST (POA) Act r/w Sec.483 of 14-A(2) of the
CRLA Nos.517 of 2025 & other cases
Scheduled Caste & Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of
Atrocities) Act, 1989 together with amendment Act,
2016 (in short, “the Act”) in nature of bail are directed
against the impugned order dated
11.04.2025/10.07.2025 passed in Spl. GR Case No.40
of 2024 & 40/2 of 2024-2025 by which the learned 2nd
Addl. Sessions Judge, Samalpur has refused to grant
bail to the appellants in connection with Khetrarajpur
PS Case No.247 of 2024 for commission of offences
punishable under Sections 115(2)/ 126(2)/ 296/
109(1)/ 191(2)(3)/ 103(1)/ 190 of BNS r/w
Sec.3(1)(r)/3(1)(s)/3(2)(va) of the Act, on the main
allegation of rioting being armed with lethal weapons,
such as stump, brick bat & wooden batten and
indiscriminately assaulting the deceased Badal Tandi
and other five injured persons namely Pramod
Mahananda, Rahul Mahananda, Pintu Singh, Niranjan
Deep and Rahul Mugri in prosecution of their common
object by taking advantage of their caste owing to a
dispute of throwing of fire-crackers towards the mother
of the appellant Subham Sharma.
