Insulted disabled; non-functional legal framework
Live LawExercising one’s right or freedom of speech and expression every so often creates hatredness aiming insult of a class of people. A former minister of Kerala abused the physically handicapped or differently able persons accusing that the various schemes of reservations and privileges granted to them is one of the major reasons for loss in public sector undertakings. The Kerala State Transport Corporation is a Public Sector transport undertaking, formed as per Road Transport Corporation Act, 1950 and it is a fully State owned corporation. Obviously, the benefit of concessional travelling benefit to disabled persons in KSRTC owned buses is an outcome of special measures under Section 44 of the Disabilities Act, 1995 and it is not a clemency of the transport employees or their trade union masters. One of the major shortcomings of the Disabilities Act, 1995 is that there is nothing in the Act to prevent or prosecute the persons who are engaged in public insult of the disabled community.
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