Madras High Court directs Erode court to consider bail pleas of nine in SC/ST Act case

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The Madras High Court has directed a special court in Erode to consider the bail applications of nine persons, preferably on the day of their surrender, in connection with a case arising from an alleged caste-related dispute over a burial at Perumbali village near Perundurai in Erode district.

Justice G.K. Ilanthiraiyan passed the order on a Criminal Original Petition filed by the nine persons under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. They sought a direction to the Principal District and Sessions Judge, Special Court for Exclusive Trial of Cases under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and Amendment Act, Erode, to consider their bail applications on the day of surrender in Crime No. 89 of 2026. The petitioners were directed to surrender before the competent jurisdictional court within 15 days of receiving a copy of the order.