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:
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:
- The recent judgement of Supreme Court of India in the matter of Atrocity Act is detrimental to aims and objectives of the Act.
- 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.’
- In Gujarat, our personal experience with such cases is quite contrary to what ‘honourable’ judges assume on caste-based atrocities.
- 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.
- The present judgement would make Dalits more vulnerable against the hostile forces that need to be controlled as early as possible.
- 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