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Pendency of atrocity cases against SC/ST alarming: Bombay HC
PTI | 05:09 PM,Sep 16,2010
The court asked the Nodal officer to look into 43 cases of atrocities
against SC/STs cited by the PIL as well as into the whole gamut of the
Act to ensure that it was followed. The Court was hearing a PIL filed
by National Dalit Movement for Justice, an NGO, alleging that the
state was not interested in implementing the Central Act. The PIL
alleged that the state had not sent annual report to the Centre on
implementation of the 21-year-old Act in the last five years. It is
mandatory to send such reports which are placed before Parliament
every year, it said. However, Medha Gadgil, Principal Home Secretary
(appeals and Security) filed an affidavit with annexures affirming
that the reports had been forwarded to the Centre. The court said it
was satisfied that this rule had been complied with. The PIL brought
to the Court''s notice various gaps and negligence by implementing
authorities at different levels. It said the vigilance and monitoring
committees set up under the 1989 legislation were not properly
constituted. The PIL alleged the state was not performing its task
under the Act to review twice in a year the performance of
prosecutors, consider reports received and investigations made in
atrocity cases apart from ascertaining preventive steps taken by
police and magistrates and rehabilitation measures taken to help the
victims. The petition further alleged that in many cases, FIRs were
not registered at all. And in cases they were registered, proper
sections of the Act were not applied. Besides, the accused were also
not arrested immediately.
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