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The Supreme Court allows the review petition filed by the Centre against Court’s judgement of ‘diluting’ various stringent provisions of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The Centre had filed a review petition after the SC judgment led to violent nation-wide protests by various SC/ST organisations on April 2, 2018.

In view of the misuse of Schedule Caste and Scheduled Tribes Atrocities Act of 1989 on March 20, 2019, the Supreme Court banned the FIR received under this Act. The court had also said that there should be a provision of anticipatory bail for the accused

Addressing the two-day national executive meeting, BJP president Amit Shah said that mahagathbandhan is just an illusion and called it a myth.

 

Shah took a deep dive in history and reminded Rahul about Congress’s treatment of Dalit icon Baba Saheb Ambedkar, Babu Jagjivan Ram and Sitaram Kesri