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No affront to Dalit rights, says SC
What has happened?
The Supreme Court said its March 20 judgment, banning immediate arrest of a person accused of insulting or injuring a Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe member, is meant to protect innocents from arbitrary arrest and not an affront to Dalit rights
SC’s comments
- Protecting the innocent
- Called the judgment a ‘balance’ between Dalit rights and right of an innocent against arrest in a false case
- Vested interests were fuelling the protests
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