Friday, March 29, 2024
spot_img

SC refuses to stay its order on SC/ST Act

Date:

Share post:

spot_img
spot_img

New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to stay its ruling which activists say has diluted a law aimed at preventing atrocities on Dalits and tribes.

A bench of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, however, said compensation can be paid to victims under The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, even without a FIR being registered.

The bench said this on a plea by the Centre seeking recall of its March 20 order where the apex court had said that no arrest would be affected on a complaint under the Act without an inquiry.

spot_img
spot_img

Related articles

How long can such killings be allowed to continue?

Editor, The loss of two precious human lives in Ichamati on March 27, 2024 has once again exposed the...

Defectors’ paradise

Power is a heady potion. The natural instinct for many is also to be on the right side...

Imperial Christianity (Part II)

By Yona M. Nonglang Indeed, coming back to our own context, the passionate intensity of the "civilising" religionists succeeded...

Irrational passions; the politics of othering & unwarranted killings

By Patricia Mukhim In Meghalaya the mere use of the phrase, “jaitbynriew in danger from outsiders,” is enough to...