Friday, January 28, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Columnist booked for making casteist comments

 

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/columnist-booked-for-making-casteist-comments/141774-3.html

Columnist booked for making casteist comments
Press Trust Of India
Posted on Jan 28, 2011 at 05:52pm IST

Mumbai: A special court on Thursday convicted Anish Trivedi, a
columnist under the Prevention of Atrocities Act for making casteist
comments in a write-up published in a local tabloid.

Anish Trivedi had written on the bad state of affairs at government
offices and attributed it to the reservation policy.

The special court today convicted Trivedi and sentenced him to six
months' imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on him.

The case dates back to April 30, 2006, when Trivedi wrote an article
titled 'Children of a lesser God', blaming caste-based reservations
for bad governance.

A case was then registered under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act after some Dalit activists filed
a complaint.

"The column was derogatory and directly attacked the Dalits. He not
only tried connecting the inefficient government offices with caste
reservations, but at several places he made distasteful comments,
which were clearly casteist," said public prosecutor Shrikant
Dukhande.

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