New Delhi: The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking mandatory rotation of constituencies reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) in Lok Sabha and State Assembly elections, observing that…
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Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has quashed proceedings against a Firozabad resident under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, observing that not every insult or threat constitutes an…
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to pay ₹6 lakh in reparation to a man who spent nearly six years in jail as an undertrial in a…
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Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has ruled that merely belonging to a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe community is not sufficient to attract offences under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The…
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Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has held that the absence of an exact casteist slur in an FIR does not, by itself, warrant quashing a case under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled…
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Meerut: A special SC/ST court in Meerut has dismissed a petition filed by Ravi Kumar Gautam against nine police officers, including then Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Avinash Pandey, over allegations of…
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Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has held that a complainant’s dissatisfaction with a police investigation or the failure of investigating officers to invoke specific provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes…
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Jaunpur: The Allahabad High Court has quashed a case registered under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against a school principal in Jaunpur district, observing that an offence…
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Meerut: The Allahabad High Court has quashed criminal proceedings against 13 police personnel accused under provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, observing that every instance…
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Ghaziabad: The Allahabad High Court has expressed concern over the alleged misuse of provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in Uttar Pradesh and directed the state…
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