Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989–Sec. 3(1)(s)–Constitution of the offence–Complaint filed u/s. 156(3) reveals that the alleged castiest abuses stated to have been used by the appellants inside the premises of the complainant–This circumstance, on its face, does not satisfy the statutory requirement that the abuses were made in any place within the public view–The house of the complainant cannot be considered to be within public view–Held, offence u/s. 3(1)(s) is not made out.
