AN OPEN LETTER : SC/ST Atrocity Act By Raju Solanki

By Raju Solanki  || 22 March 2018 at 9:09pm

Supreme Court of India has given an adverse judgement in the matter of the Atrocity Act. We have sent a letter to Member of Parliament from Gujarat Dr. Kirit Solanki urging him to promptly take action in this regard. The text of the letter is as follows:

1. The recent judgement of Supreme Court of India in the matter of Atrocity Act is detrimental to aims and objectives of the Act.
2. The apex court has observed that the said Act has been misused. This observation is very shallow and ill-founded. When acquittal rate is app. 96 percent and hardly 4 percent accused are punished, the so-called ‘misuse’ of the law is ‘fictitious’ and ’precarious.’
3. In Gujarat, our personal experience with such cases is quite contrary to what ‘honourable’ judges assume on caste-based atrocities.
4. We Dalits are the most vulnerable marginalised community, particularly in villages where feudal, casteist attitude prevails and entire political-administrative-police machinery gang up against Dalits.
5. The present judgement would make Dalits more vulnerable against the hostile forces that need to be controlled as early as possible.
6. We hope your initiative in this matter may stop ‘judicial extravagance’ and save lives of millions.

This letter will be faxed to all SC and ST MPs