The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, is an Indian law designed to prevent crimes against members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
The Supreme Court on Friday quashed a case against a man booked under the SC/ST Act saying the alleged incident did not happen in public view.
The legislation, known as the Laken Riley Act, is the first to be signed by the president in his new term, and shows how the ...
The court held that a ‘mere insult or intimidation with a view to humiliate’ does not comprise an offence. While the incident ‘need not be in a public place, it has to be in public view’, the court sa ...
A man's alleged he was falsely implicated in a honey trap case, subsequently dismissed from service at IISc, where Kris ...
Infosys Co-Founder Kris Gopalakrishnan is booked under SC/ST Atrocities Act. Tahir Hussain will campaign under police custody ...