5 years jail for North East racial insult
With a large number of citizens from the North-East come to Delhi-NCR for education and jobs. The rising unpleasant incident of racial discrimination and verbal abuse against citizens makes impossible to live here in Delhi-NCR. North-East have forced the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to send a letter to all the states and Union Territories, asking them to book offenders guilty of atrocity against people from the region under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act since a significant number of persons from the North-East belong to the Scheduled Tribes. Finally it’s decided that next time when any one decide to call North-Eastern a `Chinki`, you could end up unruffled your heels behind bars for the next five years.
The law states, “An offender can end up spending five years in jail and the accused could be denied anticipatory bail as well. And in case the police fail to act on a complaint, he/ she could be imprisoned for a term which should not be less than six months and may be extended to a year.”
It is reported to the Ministry of Home Affairs that people originating from these North-Eastern states do face abuse in major cities and feel insecure. They are facing unfairness as they are addressed with insulting adjectives or face bias in the form of targeted attacks, assault, molestation and other atrocities. Also it is reported that if the complainant from the North-East is a member of the Scheduled Tribes, then the provision of Section 4 of the SC/ ST Act should be call upon.
The Ministry of Home Affairs guesses that most North-East persons in major cities belong to the ST category. According to a provision under Section 3 of the SC/ ST Act, an offence will be committed if any member of the SC/ ST category is “deliberately insulted and humiliated in public view.”
Random Stories
14 Jul 2012 - 10:27pm |
editor
KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi on Friday demands President’s Rule in Assam to bail out the state from the worsening law and order situation. Talking to reporters, Gogoi said that Guwahati is teeming...
31 Jan 2013 - 6:31pm |
AT News
The Centre has raised the margin money for khadi and village industries from Rs 66 cr to Rs 100 cr for the next financial year 2013-2014.This was confirmed by none other than Union Minister of State...
20 Oct 2010 - 2:44am |
Juthika Das
The 562nd birth anniversary of Mahapurush Srimanta Sankadrdeva was observed at Barpeta Sattra and at Barpeta Bar Bazar like the rest of the state. The 'Bar Bazar Yubak sangha' have been observing...
3 Sep 2012 - 9:48pm |
Anil Sarma
Lions Club of Nagaon Greater organised an Eye Camp on September 1 at Jakhalabandha Hospital. A total of 415 patients were examined and free medicines were provided to them. Out of the total cases,...
Other Contents by Author
North East Girls are not safe in the capital city. A very young girl of age 16 from Assam was allegedly gang-raped by four men. These men run a placement consultancy in West Delhi; promise her to offer good job but ended with gang rape. Delhi police said that the accused cramped her in a house for days and changes to sexual assault her after pushing her to consume alcohol. Police have caught the placement consultancy owner namely Naval Kishore and Shabina and three other Imran, Lalu and Mithun after registering a case of sexual assault, unlawful confinement and legal violence. The victim move toward a placement agency seeking good job and met Imran there, who sent her to another placement...
Delhi Police will provides 5 special access ID cards to the entire student legislative body of each state of Northeast. Dharmendra Kumar, the Special Commissioner (law and order), has also guaranteed to create a Facebook page for people from the Northeast. The student can post their problems on the facebook page and can discuss regarding the matter. Kumar said "We will provide identification cards to five representatives from each state of the region. Each state will have two representatives each in the north and south Delhi and one in east Delhi”. The meeting was arranged by Nagaland governor Nikhil Kumar, a former Commisioner of Delhi Police yesterday.
There is excellent news for all the Northeast student - Delhi University has set up a unique cell with student counselors for helping the student of Northeast. The cell is being carrying out on both the campuses i.e. DU North Campus and South Campus since 4th June 2012. Moreover, the cell said that there would be further reinforcement, when the admission process will held from June 26 with the declaration of the first cutoff.The North Campus dean of students' welfare office said that 11 counselors have been present for leading the students in filling up the forms and have fielded inquiry on phone. There are a preponderance of the counselors are on hand at the Arts Faculty, North Campus as...
Introduced by Petrofed and the oil...
A new academy for Cricket was in recent times opened at the RG Baruah Sports Complex, Guwahati. Assam Cricket Association (ACA) vice president Dr Brajen Gohain inaugurated the academy on May 25. The word as told by Dr Brajen Gohain were “it has been a laudable effort as far ACA is concerned as in present day’s cricket academy is mandatory. To nurture and build strong players, they should be given scientific facilities and almost all the equipments are available in the ACA academy hall” while inaugurating the academy hall."In that session, Subhadeep Ghosh was chosen as fielding coach of India ‘A’ team. In the very next month he will make a West Indies...
A three-day national seminar on Bhupen Hazarika has began at Guwahati on Thursday at Gauhati University. The seminar is focusing on his civilized morals and his donation to society. The seminar was organized by the Institute of North Eastern Studies, Gauhati University. This was flagged off by the governor and chancellor of Gauhati University, JB Patnaik, who was also the chief guest on the first day of the seminar. The seminar will continue till May 26 and all the way through the course of the seminar, there will be plenary, academic and interactive sessions, round table conferences and cultural events. More than 100 participants from the northeast and 200 from poles apart of the country...
Add new comment