{"id":28470,"date":"2018-10-24T12:34:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28470"},"modified":"2018-10-24T12:34:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:04:58","slug":"judge-defends-verdict-on-sc-st-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/judge-defends-verdict-on-sc-st-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge defends verdict on SC\/ST Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/supreme-court-judge-defends-verdict-on-scst-act\/article24353956.ece\">Judge defends verdict on SC\/ST Act<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, who retired as Supreme Court judge recently, has defended the 20<sup>th<\/sup> March verdict on SC\/ST Act<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>In 20<sup>th<\/sup> March verdict the Supreme Court had expressed concerns over the misuse of the SC\/ST Act. The Court upheld that there should not be any automatic arrest under the SC\/ST Act and a primary inquiry must be conducted by the police before taking any action.<\/li>\n<li>The verdict called for allowing accused person to apply for anticipatory bail. The court upheld that there is no absolute bar for granting anticipatory bail in a matter under the Act.<\/li>\n<li>Previously, Section 18 of the Sc\/St Act, 1989 barred accused persons from seeking anticipatory bail<\/li>\n<li>Justice Goel has defended the judgement stating that the verdict aimed to protect innocent persons falsely accused under the SC\/ST (prevention of Atrocities Act)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge defends verdict on SC\/ST Act News: Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, who retired as Supreme Court judge recently, has defended the 20th March verdict on SC\/ST Act Important facts: In 20th March verdict the Supreme Court had expressed concerns over the misuse of the SC\/ST Act. The Court upheld that there should not be any&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/judge-defends-verdict-on-sc-st-act\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Judge defends verdict on SC\/ST Act<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704707679},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}