The Allahabad High Court has recently observed that that criminal proceedings under Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, can be compounded and quashed, based on compromise, directly in a Criminal Appeal filed under Section 14-A(1) of the 1989 Act. A bench of Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav added that there is no need to take separate recourse...