SC ST Atrocities Act

She will not be released from the Thane Central Jail immediately as she is an accused and in custody in several other cases filed against her

More than 33,000 cases have been registered in Madhya Pradesh under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in the the last four years

Maharashtra government will not arrest former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh till June 22 in a case registered against him under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act

The Gujarat High Court has held that the POCSO Act has supremacy over the Atrocities Act, as the caste of a child cannot override or prejudice his or her security and well-being

The reservation for these categories in the LS and the assemblies was to expire on January 25, 2020

The Supreme Court in a ruling in March had introduced safeguards which, Dalit leaders and organisations said, diluted the Act and rendered it toothless

The top court had recently banned automatic arrests and registration of criminal cases under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act, 1989