LEGAL RESEARCH ON THE CLOSURE OF CASES REGISTERED UNDER SC AND ST (POA) ACT 1989 - : INITIATED BY SAMATHA SAINIK DAL:

[Dr.B. Karthik Navayan]

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LEGAL RESEARCH ON THE CLOSURE OF CASES REGISTERED UNDER SC AND ST (POA) ACT 1989 - : INITIATED BY SAMATHA SAINIK DAL:

Samatha Sainik Dal (SSD), the organization founded by Babasaheb Dr. B. R. Ambedkar in 1924 with the objective of safeguarding the rights of all oppressed sections of Indian society is conducting a legal research on the closure of cases registered under Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989, initially in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states.

It came to the notice of the organization that in a district of Telangana, in last 4 years, around 20 cases registered under under Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989 are closed by the police by filing a final report. Apparently, it appears that these 20 cases cannot be false cases and there is suspicious atmosphere among the SC and ST individual victims who filed the cases. They suspect that the investigation officer who closed around 20 cases also fixed a rate for closing the cases by filing a final report. It is a disturbing trend.

In our experience, we observed that, generally, when the individuals from SC and ST communities approach police with complaints against atrocities, the authorities discouraged them and getting an FIR registered itself is a biggest task, which needs multiple visits to police station and visits to higher police officials. After FIR is registered, there will be attempts to compromise with threats or other means. If the victims still want to pursue the case in the court, the investigation officer has to stand by the victims and run the case on behalf of victims. However, in most cases, the attitude of investigation officers is discouraging the victims and in some cases, the investigation officers colluding with the accused and closing the cases for monitory gains and some other benefits.

It is in this kind of situation, Samatha Sainik Dal initiated a legal research to document the procedures followed by the investigation officers while closing the cases and the causes and consequences arising after closure of cases under SC and ST (POA). This legal research also aimed to analyze the individual cases, trends and see the possibilities to reopen the genuine cases closed by filing final reports.

Samatha Sainik Dal already filed a protest petition and reopened one such case where investigation officer closed the case by filing final/false report with legally untenable reasons and the case is now running against the accused. In this context, Samatha Sainik Dal inviting the victims, their relatives and others interested to be part of this legal research against the atrocities, please contact us and provide the details along all with the relevant documents. We are also filing Applications under RTI act to get the documents from the police authorities. Those who have such information and documents can send us:

ADDRESS:

Dr. B. Karthik Navayan

B.Com, LL.M, M.Phil, PhD

Advocate and Legal Adviser,

Samatha Sainik Dal

Ho. No. 3- 6- 260/1, First Floor,

Himayath Nagar, Hyderabad,

Telangana – 500029

Mobile: 09346677007, 

Email – nav...@gmail.com