An 18-year-old Dalit youth, Ketan Lal, was allegedly beaten to death in Pratapnagar, Uttarakhand, over an inter-caste friendship. His friend was injured. Police have filed a murder case under the SC/ST Act and detained one suspect
The Kerala High Court took suo motu cognisance of violence during a statewide hartal over the death of student Nithin Raj, directing police to submit a report and issuing notices to organisers amid disruptions to public life
A Kannur court denied anticipatory bail to former anatomy head M K Ram in a student suicide case while granting relief to Dr Sangeetha Nambiar. The court cited harassment allegations, strict classroom conduct, and ongoing investigation needs
A BDS student’s death in Kannur sparked controversy as college authorities denied caste discrimination claims, attributing it to a loan app issue. Police booked faculty for abetment and SC/ST Act violations, while investigations continue amid conflicting allegations
Delhi Police arrested a couple in Malviya Nagar for allegedly hurling racial slurs at three women from Arunachal Pradesh during a dispute. The FIR includes SC-ST Act charges. Chief Minister Rekha Gupta condemned the incident and assured strict action
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 […]
