The Press Trust of India (PTI) is one of India's leading newswire services. Headquartered in New Delhi, it is a nonprofit cooperative with a network of full-time and part-time correspondents in district headquarters across the country.
Our laws are perfection itself. It is in their implementation that things begin to unravel. The aminos Dalit girl who was violated by MLA Sengar had the mortification of seeing her father beaten to death. Now an FIR has been lodged against her. As per the letter of the Atrocities Act – in which the reasonable safeguards mandated by the apex court have been nullified by an Ordinance – her first complaint to the police ought to have led to Sengar’s arrest and denial of bail.
… minor Dalit girl …
Our laws are perfection itself. It is in their implementation that things begin to unravel. The aminos Dalit girl who was violated by MLA Sengar had the mortification of seeing her father beaten to death. Now an FIR has been lodged against her. As per the letter of the Atrocities Act – in which the reasonable safeguards mandated by the apex court have been nullified by an Ordinance – her first complaint to the police ought to have led to Sengar’s arrest and denial of bail.