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 Madras High Court slammed police officers for refusing to register an FIR on an SC man’s land complaint by wrongly calling it a civil dispute. The court ruled that SC/ST Atrocities Act mandates compulsory FIR registration and ordered swift investigation.
