A sessions court here on Thursday held newspaper columnist Anish Trivedi guilty under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and sentenced him to six months' imprisonment. Mr. Trivedi, however, got bail when he went in appeal. “[Mr. Trivedi] was given six months [imprisonment] and fined Rs. 25,000 under Section 3 (1) (x) of the Act for insulting members of the Scheduled Caste,” public prosecutor S.B. Dukhande told...
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Mirchpur violence: Dalits leave village fearing Jat threat
Nearly a dozen Dalit families have left this village in the last 15 days as last year's violence in Mirchpur has come back to haunt them. It was here that a 70-year-old and his physically-challenged daughter were killed in an attack by the dominant Jat community. The fear of violence from Jats, who have over the past 12 days staged protests demanding the release of those arrested for the incident in...
More »Thanks to NAC, scavenging abolition gets priority anew by Smita Gupta
Action plan should be finalised to end scourge before March 2012 A plan of action should be finalised within a month or so with the target of ending the pernicious practice of manual scavenging within the 11th Plan period that ends in March 2012, sources in the Social Justice Ministry said. This was the key outcome of a two-day consultation meeting which concluded here on Tuesday. Jointly organised by the Ministries of Social...
More »Going against the grain by Reetika Khera
The National Advisory Council (NAC) had been widely credited with framing three pro-people legislations — the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), the Right to Information (RTI) and the Forest Rights Act — under the UPA 1 government. So when NAC 2 began discussions on the Food Security Act in mid-2010, expectations were high. The initial vision of an act with a universal public distribution system (PDS), extensive children's entitlements...
More »Oil gang burns collector alive by Satish Nandgaonkar
In the middle of a debate about corruption in high places, the curse struck in a macabre manner from the base of the pyramid on the eve of the celebration of the republic. An additional collector was burnt alive in daylight by a gang that sprinkled kerosene on him after the 44-year-old officer caught their aides pilfering fuel from a tanker in Maharashtra’s Nashik today. The prime suspect, who has a history...
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