Hurling abuses at a person of the Scheduled caste/Scheduled tribe community within the four walls of a house does not amount to an offence under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989
As the Covid-19 pandemic singes the land, there is another, more insidious, perverse act happening under its masked cover. The atrocities on the Dalits are rising at an alarming rate. Those disadvantaged from birth are now soft targets of upper caste terror.