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The Allahabad High Court connected Thursday (November 6, 2025) ordered 3 Dalit women to instrumentality the ₹4.5 lakh compensation they had collectively received from the Uttar Pradesh authorities aft they retracted their statements recorded earlier a magistrate.
A Bench of Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav besides slapped a ₹5 lakh good connected the 19 men, accused of assaulting the women, for manipulating the victims.
The substance pertains to a ailment filed by a pistillate and her 2 daughters-in-law against 19 upper-caste men, for trespassing, assault, transgression intimidation and offences nether the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act astatine Yamunapar constabulary presumption successful Prayagraj territory successful July past year.
The substance is presently astatine the proceedings signifier successful a section court, which had summoned the accused persons. The accused aboriginal approached the HC seeking quashing of the cognisance and summoning orders from the proceedings court.
During a proceeding earlier this month, the complainant told the tribunal she ne'er lodged immoderate ailment with the constabulary and claimed that her thumb impressions were taken connected a blank paper.
However, the lawyer representing the State submitted that the complainant and her daughters-in-law’s aesculapian reports and statements recorded earlier the magistrate, successful which they unequivocally supported the prosecution. The tribunal was besides informed that each pistillate received ₹1.5 lakh compensation from the government.
“The Court finds it profoundly disturbing that the complainant present denies having filed the FIR, contempt having made statements nether Section 164 Cr.P.C. affirming the allegations and having availed of important monetary compensation nether the statutory strategy meant for genuine victims of atrocities,” the tribunal said, ordering the women to instrumentality the compensation.
Justice Yadav noted that the women’s behaviour prima facie reflects a “serious maltreatment of the process of law” and “a gross misuse of the benevolent provisions of the SC/ST Act”.
Terming the series of events arsenic “deliberate effort to manipulate the transgression justness process aft wrongfully obtaining nationalist funds, thereby committing a fraud upon the State”, the tribunal besides imposed a ₹5 lakh outgo connected the appellants to deter recurrence of specified manipulative conduct.
