PRAYAGRAJ, Sept. 13 -- The Allahabad high court has observed that the mere fact that the complainant belongs to the Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribes does not attract an offence under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, adding that for constituting an offence under the said Act, its ingredients must be present. The high court made these observations while quashing the criminal proceedings against the accused to the extent of the SC/ST Act. Though the dispute was relating to a property but SC/ST Act was added because one party which was complainant was Scheduled Caste. While partly allowing the criminal appeal filed by Raju Kuraishi and four other accused, Justice Santosh Rai said, "So far as...