Crl.O.P.No.29345 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED : 29.10.2025 CORAM: THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.D.JAGADISH CHANDIRA Crl.O.P.No.29345 of 2025 1. Chinnasamy 2. Mageshwari 3. Neelavathi ... Petitioners Vs. 1. The Deputy Superintendent of Police, Erode Sub Division, Erode District. 2. The State represented by, The Inspector of Police, Sathyamangalam Police Station, Erode. (Crime No.558 of 2025) 3. Vetrikondan ... Respondents PRAYER : Criminal Original Petition is filed under Section 528 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita/Section 482 Cr.P.C, to direct the learned Special Judge for SC & ST Act Cases, Principal Sessions Court, Erode, to consider the bail petition to be filed by the petitioners on their surrender on the same day, on merits in connection with the case in Crime No.558 of 2025 pending investigation on the file of the respondent Police. 1/4 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Crl.O.P.No.29345 of 2025 For Petitioner : Mr.K.Sathishkumar For R1 & R2 : Mr.R.Vinothraja Government Advocate (Criminal Side) O R D E R This Criminal Original Petition has been filed seeking a direction to the learned Special Judge for SC & ST Act Cases, Principal Sessions Court, Erode, to accept the surrender of the petitioners and consequently consider their bail petition on the same day, on merits, in connection with Crime No.558 of 2025 on the file of the second respondent Police. 2. In view of the specific bar under Section 18 of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and also taking into consideration the possibility of misusing the pious intention of the Parliament against innocent persons, there shall be a direction to the learned Special Judge for SC & ST Act Cases, Principal Sessions Court, Erode, to consider the petitioners' bail application, preferably on the same day of their surrender, in connection with Crime No.558 of 2025 on the file of the second respondent Police and to pass appropriate orders in accordance with law, after affording due opportunity to the victims under 2/4 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Crl.O.P.No.29345 of 2025 Section 15-A of the SC/ST (POA) Act, 1989. The petitioners shall surrender before the jurisdictional Court concerned within a period of fifteen days from the date of the receipt of a copy of this order. 3. In view of the above, the Criminal Original Petition stands allowed. 29.10.2025 ham Neutral Citation:Yes/No To 1. The Special Judge for SC & ST Act Cases, Principal Sessions Court Erode. 2. The Deputy Superintendent of Police, Erode Sub Division , Erode District. 3. The Inspector of Police, Sathyamangalam Police Station, Erode. 4. The Public Prosecutor, High Court of Madras. 3/4 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Crl.O.P.No.29345 of 2025 A.D.JAGADISH CHANDIRA , J. ham Crl.O.P.No.29345 of 2025 29.10.2025 4/4 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis