The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its order on the petitions challenging the SC / ST Amended Act, 2018.
Earlier on Tuesday, the bench of 3 Justice Arun Mishra, MR Shah and BR Gavai withdrew their 2018 directives and the old SC / ST Act, 1989 was implemented unanimously. Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan welcomed the decision taken by the Supreme Court on 1 October on a review petition of the Center. He also thanked Prime Minister Modi for this. He said that this is a commendable step taken by Prime Minister Modi in the apex court for the rights of scheduled castes and tribes.
According to this, now the Scheduled Castes and Tribes can be arrested immediately after the complaint of atrocities, while the amended law had the provision of arrest after investigation.
As per the amended law, there is no provision for bail to the accused of atrocities on scheduled caste tribes. The law enacted in 1989 for Scheduled Castes and Tribes aims to free them from atrocities and empower them in the society like the common classes. Under this, strict action has been made against the people of this class for committing atrocities or committing crimes against them.
Under the amended law, it was provided that those who persecuted this class or committed crimes against them would not be arrested immediately. Investigations will be conducted at the DSP level for the first seven days, after which arrest will be made if the crime is proved. The motive behind this was that there could be no false case of any kind. But for this, there was intense opposition from the Dalit class across the country and the Central Government had filed a review petition on the amended Act by the Supreme Court.
