The Bench has upheld the punishment of Life Imprisonment with a fine of Rupees 1,000 under section 376(1) of Indian Penal Code but set aside the same punishment under section 3(2)(v) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989.
The Chhattisgarh High Court has stayed the recruitment of reserved seats for the Scheduled Castes category in the appointment of Assistant Professor in Indira Gandhi Agricultural College, Raipur.
In the plea, Secretary of Peoples Charioteer Organisation submitted that these commissions have failed to provide any relief in matters pertaining to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes since these posts are lying vacant.
As the Covid-19 pandemic singes the land, there is another, more insidious, perverse act happening under its masked cover. The atrocities on the Dalits are rising at an alarming rate. Those disadvantaged from birth are now soft targets of upper caste terror.