SC/ST act

On Thursday, 4th January, the Punjab and Haryana High Court quashed an FIR filed last year against Times Now Navbharat reporter Bhawana Gupta (Bhawana Kishore) for allegedly hitting a Dalit woman with a car and hurling casteist slurs against her.

A Dalit woman was raped in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki district by the accused identified as Mughal-e-Azam alias Riyaz and his accomplices.

Allahabad High Court stated that a person can be subjected to trial under SC/ST Act only if the utterances are made in public.

As the incident transpired in the precinct of Bareilly junction, the Government Railway Police (GRP) registered a case against the accused MLA under the provisions of the SC/ST Act and other relevant sections.

The court categorically highlighted that on account of false cases under the SC/ST Act or others, the judicial system gets clogged leaving the genuine petitioners to suffer the ill consequences of it.

Students at Varanasi's Banaras Hindu University (BHU) are protesting against a Professor named Shobhana Narlikar who repeatedly threatens to implicate them under SC/ST Act.

Mohammad Ali, a computer teacher working in a junior school in a village in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh was arrested after students complained that he sexually harassed them during and after class hours

The journalist was picked up from his house after a complaint was filed by BJP MLA Lakshman Napa's son

Four adults and a 6-year-child sent to jail in Uttarakhand after they were slapped with SC-ST case in a land dispute

National Commission for Scheduled Castes issued notice to Endemol India Pvt Ltd, the maker of the TV Show 'Bigg Boss' after one of the candidates of the show named Vikas Manaktala, allegedly referred to another cast member, Archana Gautam, as "Neech jati ke log