Ushkem Raghupathi was arrested in Adilabad for grabbing land from the poor using forged documents and threatening them. A case under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, was registered after he abused Dalits and threatened a local resident
Three Pune women alleged police assaulted them and used casteist slurs during a missing person investigation. Rohit Pawar has sought action under the SC/ST Atrocities Act. Police have denied the allegations, citing no evidence in preliminary inquiry
Jogipet Police have registered a case under sections of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against YSR Telangana Party (YSRTP) president YS Sharmila for making abusive and baseless comments against Andole MLA.
Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has ruled that victims under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act are entitled to compensation only on conviction of the accused and not merely on filing of FIR or submission of the charge sheet in the court. The high court also ordered to […]
Bhupalpally: The row over land at Maha Mutharam village is snowballing into a controversy as the forest officials issued the POR (Preliminary Offence Report) against Maha Mutharam Tahsildar Madhavi as the revenue officials insisted that the land under cultivation by the farmers belonged to revenue department, not that of the forest department. Moreover, a forest […]
