{"id":319805,"date":"2020-02-10T07:05:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T07:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319805"},"modified":"2020-02-10T07:05:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T07:05:50","slug":"sc-upholds-constitutional-validity-of-sc-st-amendment-act-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-upholds-constitutional-validity-of-sc-st-amendment-act-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"SC upholds constitutional validity of SC\/ST Amendment Act, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319455 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-696x460.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-635x420.jpg 635w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1068px) 100vw, 1068px\" \/>The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutional validity of SC\/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act of 2018 that ruled out any provision for anticipatory bail for a person accused of atrocities against SC\/STs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra said a preliminary inquiry is not essential before lodging an FIR under the act and also the approval of senior police officials is not required.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe court can grant anticipatory bail only when prima facie case is not made out,\u201d the top court noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Act also does not provide for anticipatory bail to the accused and Courts can, however, quash FIRs in exceptional circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The apex court\u2019s verdict came on a batch of petitions challenging the validity of the SC\/ST Amendment Act of 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutional validity of SC\/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act of 2018 that ruled out any provision for anticipatory bail for a person accused of atrocities against SC\/STs. A bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra said a preliminary inquiry is not essential before lodging an FIR under the act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319806,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319805\/revisions\/319806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}