Atrocities Against Scs And Sts

Amid speculation about Hemant Soren's imminent arrest, the Jharkhand chief minister has filed a case against the Enforcement Directorate under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

The Supreme Court Monday quashed the criminal proceedings initiated against DMK Rajya Sabha lawmaker RS Bharathi under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for a speech he made in 2020.

Union minister Uma Bharti said on Thursday that caste-based reservations cannot be abolished, answering a question about the agitation by some upper caste organisations in Madhya Pradesh against Parliament's amendment of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

Uttar Pradesh minister and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party president Om Prakash Rajbhar claimed on Sunday that the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act was being "misused" and many innocent people framed, and said the Supreme Court verdict putting safeguards against arrest under the law was justified.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Friday alleged that the 'Bharat Bandh' organised against the amendment to the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, was in fact "a conspiracy of the BJP" and an "event orchestrated by the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh".

Ahead of a big protest by Dalit groups, the centre today signed off on a bill to overrule the Supreme Court that had introduced safeguards against arbitrary arrests in the Dalit atrocities law. The change comes days after the BJP ally and its dalit face, Ram Vilas Paswan, threatened to join the protests if Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not resto...

Hearing the centre's request to review its own order, the Supreme Court on Thursday said it was "100 per cent" for the protection of Dalits against atrocities but no one should be "falsely implicated". The government said the court's move in March to make it more difficult to arrest people for crimes against Dalits weakened the law and amounted to ...

A priest in Hyderabad carried a Dalit man on his shoulders into a temple on Monday and hugged him, reenacting a nearly 3,000-year-old ritual that he says holds a strong message in the backdrop of recent violence and discrimination against Dalits.

There is a need to overturn the Supreme Court order laying down fresh guidelines on arrest of those accused of committing atrocities against SC and ST communities, the government feels, and bringing an ordinance to restore the original provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act is one of the options being considered.

The verdict of the Supreme Court on a law that seeks to prevent atrocities against scheduled castes and scheduled tribes has created "disharmony" in the country, the government has told the court.

Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Thursday held opposition parties responsible for the violence during protests against "dilution" of the provisions of the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act on Monday, and claimed that some criminals were involved in the stir in the state.

Slogan-shouting and booing by the opposition drowned out Home Minister Rajnath Singh's speech in Lok Sabha today, a day after 11 people died in the spiral of violence during an all-India strike called by Dalit groups who allege that a law that seeks to protect them against atrocities has been diluted.

The order which allegedly weakened a stringent law to protect Dalits against atrocities, is a "safeguard" necessary to protect the constitutional rights of innocents, the Supreme Court said today. "Our aim is to protect innocents, we have not diluted the law in any manner," said the court, turning down the government's appeal to freeze the earlier ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday expressed her support to the cause of the Dalits and said she was shocked over the death of four persons in Madhya Pradesh during the nationwide bandh called against the alleged dilution of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

Seven people have been killed in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and UP as several Dalit organizations called for a nationwide 'bandh'against the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act today.

Amid speculation about Hemant Soren's imminent arrest, the Jharkhand chief minister has filed a case against the Enforcement Directorate under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

The Supreme Court Monday quashed the criminal proceedings initiated against DMK Rajya Sabha lawmaker RS Bharathi under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for a speech he made in 2020.

Union minister Uma Bharti said on Thursday that caste-based reservations cannot be abolished, answering a question about the agitation by some upper caste organisations in Madhya Pradesh against Parliament's amendment of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

Uttar Pradesh minister and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party president Om Prakash Rajbhar claimed on Sunday that the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act was being "misused" and many innocent people framed, and said the Supreme Court verdict putting safeguards against arrest under the law was justified.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Friday alleged that the 'Bharat Bandh' organised against the amendment to the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, was in fact "a conspiracy of the BJP" and an "event orchestrated by the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh".

Ahead of a big protest by Dalit groups, the centre today signed off on a bill to overrule the Supreme Court that had introduced safeguards against arbitrary arrests in the Dalit atrocities law. The change comes days after the BJP ally and its dalit face, Ram Vilas Paswan, threatened to join the protests if Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not resto...

Hearing the centre's request to review its own order, the Supreme Court on Thursday said it was "100 per cent" for the protection of Dalits against atrocities but no one should be "falsely implicated". The government said the court's move in March to make it more difficult to arrest people for crimes against Dalits weakened the law and amounted to ...

A priest in Hyderabad carried a Dalit man on his shoulders into a temple on Monday and hugged him, reenacting a nearly 3,000-year-old ritual that he says holds a strong message in the backdrop of recent violence and discrimination against Dalits.

There is a need to overturn the Supreme Court order laying down fresh guidelines on arrest of those accused of committing atrocities against SC and ST communities, the government feels, and bringing an ordinance to restore the original provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act is one of the options being considered.

The verdict of the Supreme Court on a law that seeks to prevent atrocities against scheduled castes and scheduled tribes has created "disharmony" in the country, the government has told the court.

Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Thursday held opposition parties responsible for the violence during protests against "dilution" of the provisions of the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act on Monday, and claimed that some criminals were involved in the stir in the state.

Slogan-shouting and booing by the opposition drowned out Home Minister Rajnath Singh's speech in Lok Sabha today, a day after 11 people died in the spiral of violence during an all-India strike called by Dalit groups who allege that a law that seeks to protect them against atrocities has been diluted.

The order which allegedly weakened a stringent law to protect Dalits against atrocities, is a "safeguard" necessary to protect the constitutional rights of innocents, the Supreme Court said today. "Our aim is to protect innocents, we have not diluted the law in any manner," said the court, turning down the government's appeal to freeze the earlier ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday expressed her support to the cause of the Dalits and said she was shocked over the death of four persons in Madhya Pradesh during the nationwide bandh called against the alleged dilution of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

Seven people have been killed in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and UP as several Dalit organizations called for a nationwide 'bandh'against the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act today.