Supreme Court judge Justice S. Ravindra Bhat on Wednesday said creating a separate Schedule in the Constitution for denotified, nomadic, and semi-nomadic tribes and the extension of the Prevention of Atrocities against SC/ST Act to them “requires urgent consideration and appropriate action”. Justice Bhat added that the government should show an “essence of urgency” to finish the ethnographic survey of …
In this two part series interview with Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project we are in conversation with Nikita Sonavane, Ameya Bokil and Srujana Bej, lawyers and team members at the CPA project. In the first part we discussed the need of documenting and intervening against the disproportionate harm caused by the criminal justice system against marginalized castes. In this …
