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SC/ST case against DMK MLA’s son, daughter-in-law | Madras HC directs the couple to appear in person before special court

The Madras High Court, on January 25, 2024 has refused to direct the Principal District and Sessions Court in Chennai to consider a bail application to be filed by DMK MLA E. Karunanithi’s son and daughter-in-law in a Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 case on the same day of their surrender.

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Disposing of an application filed by Anto Mathivanan and his wife Marlena Ann, Justice N. Anand Venkatesh said, the usual direction issued by the court, to consider the bail application on the same day of surrender, could not be issued routinely in all cases in view of the amendments made to the SC/ST Act in 2016.

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