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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | People of denotified tribes continue to bear the burden of an unjust colonial past -Nikita Sonavane, Srujana Bej and Ameya Bokil

People of denotified tribes continue to bear the burden of an unjust colonial past -Nikita Sonavane, Srujana Bej and Ameya Bokil

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published Published on Dec 7, 2020   modified Modified on Dec 8, 2020

-The Indian Express

Certain communities such as the Denotified Tribes (DNTs), which have a history of persecution by the criminal justice system, are targeted under specific laws and legal provisions.

In August, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) released the annual Prison Statistics Report for 2019. This compilation provides demographic information on prison inmates for administrative categories such as age, gender, religion and caste. It has consistently highlighted to lawmakers the overrepresentation of marginalised communities such as the Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Classes (OBC) in our prison population. However, the administrative categories of SC/ST/OBC –relied on for the identification of inmates’ social location — are too broad. They minimise and invalidate the probing cruelty of the criminal justice system against specific communities within these heterogeneous caste categories. Official data must be further disaggregated to help shed light on the persecution of certain marginalised communities such as the Denotified Tribal Communities.

A closer look at the prison population is likely to tell us that certain communities such as the Denotified Tribes (DNTs), which have a history of persecution by the criminal justice system, are targeted under specific laws and legal provisions. We argue that viewing the problem of overrepresentation of DNTs in the prison population through the lens of policing, would bring to light the targeted persecution of marginalised communities.

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The Indian Express, 7 December, 2020, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/people-of-denotified-tribes-continue-to-bear-the-burden-of-an-unjust-colonial-past-7095613/?fbclid=IwAR0hRX_eOp8m7GtWqe-vgy29KdYLEdubI7H3oFyZLD_TdWVmAycQPLiyMPk


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