ORDER : This petition has been filed, seeking to direct the learned Principal and District Sessions Judge (PCR Court), Sivagangai to consider the bail application of the petitioners on the same day of their surrender pending investigation in connection with the FIR in Crime No.26 of 2016 on the file of the respondent police. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners have been implicated in this case for the alleged offences under Sections 147, 148, 294(b), 324 and 506(ii) IPC and Section 3(1)(x) of SC/ST Act in Crime No.26 of 2016 and that in view of the specific bar under Section 18 of the said Act, the petitioners cannot move any anticipatory bail application and therefore, the petitioners have come forward with the said prayer. 3. Learned Government Advocate (Crl. Side) takes notice for the respondents and submits that the injured has been discharged from the hospital. 4. Considering the submissions of both sides and also considering the nature of the prayer in this case in view of the specific bar under Section 18 of the S.C. & S.T. (Prevention of Atrocities) Act that the petitioners cannot move any anticipatory bail, the learned Principal and District Sessions Judge (PCR Court), Sivagangai is directed to accept the surrender of the petitioners and consider their bail applications, in the event of the petitioners filing such petition in Crime No.26 of 2016 on the file of the respondent police, and dispose of the same on merits and in accordance with law on the same day. With this observation, this petition is disposed of accordingly.