Jodhpur: Rajasthan High Court has given a giant determination within the case registered beneath SC-ST Act. The High Court, whereas eradicating 4 caste-indicative phrases from the SC-ST Act, mentioned that phrases like Bhangi, Neech, Bhikhari, Mangani aren’t caste-indicative. Actually, the matter is said to the argument with authorities staff through the motion of eradicating encroachment, after which the matter reached the courtroom.
The courtroom eliminated the sections of the SC-ST Act towards the 4 accused who used these phrases. The bench of Justice Virendra Kumar has given this determination. The matter is of Kotwali police station of Jaisalmer. A case was registered right here on January 31, 2011 beneath the SC-ST Act. On January 31, 2011, Harish Chandra together with different officers had gone to research the encroachment by Achal Singh.
While they have been measuring the location, Achal Singh abused authorities official Harish Chandra, together with phrases like bhangi, neech, beggar and mangani. During this era a scuffle additionally occurred. On this, a case of SC-ST Act was registered towards Achal Singh within the Kotwali police station on behalf of the federal government official. Four folks have been charged on this case. All 4 had challenged the costs beneath the SC-ST Act.
The appellants mentioned that they weren’t conscious of the caste of the sufferer. It was argued that there was no proof that the incident occurred in public, the witness being solely the prosecution. Here, after the case was registered, investigation was began by the Kotwali police. During this era no proof associated to this was discovered. During the listening to of the case, the Appellant’s lawyer Liladhar Khatri mentioned that the Appellant was not conscious of the caste of the officer.
No proof has been discovered that such phrases have been spoken and this incident additionally occurred in public. In such a state of affairs, within the police investigation, the allegation of insulting with caste associated phrases was not thought-about true. The High Court ordered that the phrases Bhangi, Neech, Mangni and Bhikhari aren’t caste associated and won’t be included within the SC/ST Act. In such a state of affairs, the Appellant has been acquitted within the case of utilizing caste associated phrases, however the staff engaged in authorities obligation have been stopped, the case will proceed on this matter. During the listening to, the petitioner’s lawyer argued that the abuses weren’t carried out with the intention of humiliating the workers however for the sake of measurement. What the petitioner did was to protest towards the measurements being taken incorrectly by authorities staff.
