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SC ST atrocities act 1989

Crime

Bhopal: NSUI leader booked for rape, assault and criminal intimidation of an ST student during “Chhatron ki Goonj” campaign

OpIndia Staff -
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act has been invoked against NSUI member Subhasg Yadav.
News Reports

Viral video of Meerut SSP Avinash Pandey slapping protestors: Read what happened and how a 2-month-old murder case is being politicised in UP

Shriti Sagar -
SSP Avinash Pandey justified the police action and informed that the protesters had turned violent and attacked police personnel during the demonstration.
Opinions

Supreme Court has got the SC-ST Act right, ‘in public view’ is an essential Constitutional filter that prevents false cases

Divyansh Tiwari -
Parliament took a clear legislative choice in drafting Sections 3(1)(r) and (s) to connect those specific offences to a public element, and courts are not free to read out that element simply because a commentator finds it inconvenient.
Crime

UP: Yogi govt suspends 2 cops for failing to invoke SC/ST Act and anti-conversion law against Rameez who pretended to be Vikas to entrap...

OpIndia Staff -
Rameez pretended to be 'Vikas' on social media and entrapped a Hindu Dalit woman in a love relationship for 2 years. The Muslim man promised to marry the victim but instead made intimate videos, which he later used to blackmail her.
Opinions

UGC Regulations vs Mandal Commission: Why Gen Z is surprisingly more caste-conscious, and won’t toe the same lines as their parents

Rahul Roushan -
Is the Gen Z more conscious of their caste? Are they casteists? Why are they less likely to surrender to ‘social justice’ narratives.
Crime

Professional disagreement, workplace grievances can’t be automatically charged under SC ST Act, unless specific casteist abuse in public: Calcutta HC

OpIndia Staff -
The professor is a PhD in Sanskrit and had served as Head of the Department of Sanskrit at Sanskrit College & University. She was accused by an assistant professor of the same university, who belongs to the SC community, of professional jealousy and harassment.
Crime

Darbhanga: All Brahmin men leave village after all of them were named in FIR under SC/ST Act following fight over alleged non-payment of dues

OpIndia Staff -
Many of the people named as accused in this FIR have not lived in the village for years.
Crime

Arrow shot by actor playing Ram hit the eye of the Dalit actor playing Ravan in Ramleela, the victim files FIR under SC/ST Act

OpIndia Staff -
Notably, the complaint in the incident was filed by the family of Sunil Kumar about three months after the incident.
News Reports

VBA president Prakash Ambedkar threatens FIR against Maharashtra minister Girish Mahajan under SC/ST Atrocity Act for not mentioning BR Ambedkar in Republic Day speech

OpIndia Staff -
Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) president Prakash Ambedkar has threatened to pursue legal action against Maharashtra's Water Resources Minister and BJP leader Girish Mahajan for...
Law

Abuse alone is not an offence under the SC/ST Act if there is no intent to humiliate: Supreme Court

OpIndia Staff -
The court outlined Section 3(1)(r) of the SC/ST Act, stating that two conditions need to be taken into consideration for convicting a person under the provision. First, the complainant must belong to the SC or ST group. Second, the abuse or insult must be specifically based on the complainant's caste.
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