Section 482 cannot be appealed against the order passed under the SCST Act.

The Allahabad High Court has held that an appeal under section 482 CrPC against a summons order passed by a special judge in the offense of the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Act (SCST Act) is not maintainable as an appeal under 482 cannot be filed. Is. The Court held that the appeal is maintainable only under Section 14A(1) of the SCST Act. Justice Anil Kumar Ojha has given this order while hearing the petition of Anuj Kumar alias Sanjay and others.
In this case, an FIR was lodged against the petitioner at the Nimgaon police station of Lakhimpur Kheri under the SCST Act. The summons was issued to the petitioner on the basis of the charge sheet by the Special Sessions Judge SCST, District Court, Lakhimpur Kheri. The petitioner had filed an appeal under section 482 of CrPC in the Allahabad High Court seeking quashing of the summons issued.
Intermediate order to take cognizance of offense and summon
The court said that because the SCST Act is a special law and is effective on the provision of CrPC. Therefore, the arrangement for filing an appeal on the order under this law has been made in section 14A(1) of this law. The court said that an appeal can be filed before the High Court under the same law against the order passed by the special judge by the petitioner.
An appeal under section 482 of CrPC is not maintainable. The High Court, in its order, referred to the Supreme Court's decision of Girish Kumar Suneja vs CBI. It has been said that taking cognizance of the offense and summoning the accused is an intermediate order. Therefore an appeal against the order passed by the Special Judge SCST cannot lie under section 482 CrPC.