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9. It is also curious to note that there are two kinds of insults against the members of SC or ST are made punishable one as defined under sub Section (ii) and the other as defined under sub Section (x) of the said Section. Under Section 3(1)(x) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, insult can be caused to the person insulted only if he is present in view of the expression "in any place within public view". The words "within public view", are referable only to the person insulted and not to person who insulted him as the said expression is conspicuously absent in sub Section (ii) of Section 3 of SC & ST Act. Insult contemplated under sub Section (ii) is different from the insult contemplated under sub Section (x) as in the former a Member of the SC or ST gets insulted by the physical act and whereas, in the later, he gets in public view by the words uttered by the wrong doer for which https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis he must be present at the place. In the absence of the said ingredients of the section 3(1)(x), the offence is not made out in the present case.