direction of law resulting in known injury, a requirement stated to be wholly absent here. It was submitted that Section 217 of ‘the I.P.C.,’ fails for identical reasons, and Section 167 of ‘the I.P.C.,’ fails since no document prepared in compliance with a subsisting Government Order can be termed “incorrect”. Reliance was placed on Mir Nagvi Askari v. CBI2 , for the ingredients of criminal conspiracy under Section 120-B of ‘the I.P.C.,’ namely an agreement, its relation to an illegal act or a legal act by illegal means, and a meeting of minds, and it was submitted that none of these ingredients finds any mention in the complaint, which discloses, at its highest, mere disagreement with a policy decision. As regards Section 3(1)(f) and (g) of ‘the SCs & STs (POA) Act.,’ it was submitted that the three cumulative prerequisites, namely a scheduled-caste or scheduled-tribe victim, a non-scheduled accused, and wrongful dispossession, are each unsatisfied, no individual victim having been identified and the lands in question having been validly reconstituted or transferred under the very Government Order impugned.
