Offences under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act are non-compoundable. So, no compromise is possible directly or through the intervention of the trial court.
At the same time, as pointed out by me in respect of a similar question (The Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955), if the other party is willing to compromise the case as it appears, you may file a petition / application before the concerned high court under Section 482 of the Cr.P.C. for quashing of the proceedings / FIR on the basis of such compromise. There is a reasonable chance that the high court may allow it to be quashed if the other party is willing to compromise, as such a case may be covered in the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Gian Singh v. State of Punjab, (2012) 10 SCC 303 : AIR 2012 SC Supp 838 : 2012 Cri LJ 4934.
If a petition before the high court also does not help, then the only option left would be for the complainant and other witnesses to not support the prosecution case and inform during trial that they have compromised the case.
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