ORDER : Heard. 2. It has been pointed out by learned counsel, appearing on behalf of the informant, that in the light of recent Amendment, made in Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 2015, a new Section 14-A has been added to the following effect:- “9. Insertion of new Section 14-A.–After Section 14 of the principal Act, the following section shall be inserted, namely– “14-A. Appeals.–(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), an appeal shall lie, from any judgment, sentence or order, not being an interlocutory order, of a Special Court or an Exclusive Special Court, to the High Court both on facts and on law. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (3) of Section 378 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), an appeal shall lied to the High Court against an order of the Special Court or the Exclusive Special Court granting or refusing bail. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, every appeal under this Section shall be preferred within a period of ninety days from the date of the judgment, sentence or order appealed from: Provided that the High Court may entertain an appeal after the expiry of the said period of ninety days if it is satisfied that the appellant had sufficient cause for not preferring the appeal within the period of ninety days: Provided further that no appeal shall be entertained after the expiry of the period of one hundred and eighty days. (4) Every appeal preferred under sub-section (1) shall, as far as possible, be disposed of within a period of three months from the date of admission of the appeal.” 3. The petitioners had earlier filed an application for anticipatory bail before the Special Court, which came to be rejected. Thereafter, the present application for grant of anticipatory bail has been filed. 4. In such situation, this application is dismissed as not maintainable. 5. The petitioners, abovenamed, shall be at liberty to prefer an appeal, as prescribed under the amended provision, as aforesaid.