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Issues: Whether the High Court Registry could refuse to number an anticipatory bail petition on the ground that it was not maintainable in view of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.
Analysis: Numbering of a petition is an administrative act, while deciding maintainability in the context of section 18A of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 requires judicial application of mind. The Registry could not assume the court's judicial function by examining whether the anticipatory bail petition was maintainable. The proper course was to number the petition and place it before the appropriate Bench for adjudication.
Conclusion: The Registry could not refuse numbering of the anticipatory bail petition on maintainability grounds and was directed to number the petition and place it before an appropriate Bench.