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In 75% of cases, the accused were acquitted by the court, he claimed Trivedi said the survey clearly shows provisions of Prevention of Atrocities against SC/ST Act were being misused and safeguards inserted by SC to check it were necessary. It was found that 90% complaints on which cases under the said Act were registered came from those belonging to SCs and only 10% STs had filed FIR for registration of case under the Act. BHOPAL: MP High Court Bar Association has said 75% of cases registered under the Prevention of Atrocities against SC/ST Act were fake.Releasing results of a survey carried out by the association, its president Adarsh Muni Trivedi said the survey also showed that 81% cases under SC/ST Atrocities Act were registered against persons from OBC section, 14% upper castes and 5 percent minorities sections.He said cases under SC/ST Atrocities Act presented in three benches of MP high court and district courts in 2015-16 were included in the survey..