New Delhi: Pointing out that no rationale was given for requiring senior Axis Bank officials to appear personally before the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) in a case where the bank had attempted to exercise its mortgage rights, the Delhi High Court last week stayed the commission’s orders for the same passed in July and October this year.

The court was hearing a case involving a Maharashtra-based man who had filed a complaint with the NCST alleging commission of atrocities against him in reference to the bank’s move to claim property mortgaged by him after loan default.

He invoked Section 3(1)(f) and (g) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, which penalise wrongful occupation or cultivation of land, owned by, in possession of or al

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