First, the State Government cannot invoke the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act merely because a member of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe is insulted or humiliated. It can only be invoked when a member of Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe has been insulted or humiliated only on account of he being a member of Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe.
Vivek Reddy at Law and Other Things examines the arrest of journalists for writing op-eds against a political leader who also happens to be Dalit from legal perspectives [hat tip: Abi].
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