Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989–Sec. 3(1)(r)–Applicability–Specific allegation that the petitioner called the respondent no. 2 on his mobile phone and abused him using casteist slurs–The telephonic conversation between two persons is purely personal in nature and, therefore, by no stretch of the imagination, it can be said that the petitioner insulted or intimidated the complainant with an intent to humiliate a member of Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe at any public place within public view–FIR and consequential proceedings are liable to be quashed.
