Question Hour: The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it clear that there was no bar either on paying compensation and/or other immediate relief to victims belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes or registration of FIR under any provision of law in its March 20 verdict putting in place certain safeguards on arrests under the SC/ST Act. The top court also said there was "no dilution" of any provision of the SC/ST Act (Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989) relating to compensation, trial or punishment in its judgement. The question now arises, is there any political conspiracy behind all the chaos and protest violenced in the name of SC/ST Act?
