The 2015 and 2018 amendments turned a shield into a sword. Police data from Rajasthan and Haryana now record close to half of atrocity FIRs as false, convictions hover around a third, and the Supreme Court has just declined to look again.
The Allahabad High Court, condemning the misuse of the SC/ST Act, ordered a Rs 4.5 lakh refund from the complainant and imposed a Rs 5 lakh fine on the accused for manipulating the judicial process and defrauding the State.
