The Delhi High Court has imposed costs of Rs. 20,000 on a litigant for “misusing and abusing” the victim compensation scheme under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. A division bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela rejected the litigant's appeal who filed an FIR in 2019 under the enactment under which...