New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India has given its verdict on the petitions challenging the validity of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2018. The Bench of Justice Arun Mishra, Justice Vineet Saran and Justice Ravindra Bhat gave a major relief to the Central Government while passing judgment on these petitions. The Supreme Court has upheld the amendment of the Central Government.

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The Act prohibits the provisions of granting anticipatory bail to an accused arrested, as per the SC-ST Act. The apex court had said in its judgment on 20 March 2018 that arrest cannot be made without investigation under the SC-ST Act. On this, the Central Government had filed a review petition, expressing disagreement on this decision of the two-judge bench of the apex court. In fact, in view of the misuse of the SC-ST Act, 1989, the apex court had automatically stopped the arrest of the accused on the basis of an FIR without any investigation".

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The act was then amended to overturn the order of the top court in Parliament, which was challenged in the Supreme Court. There were protests across the country following the Supreme Court's decision on the SC-ST law. In particular, people from the Dalit community protested by closing the market place. After which the government reversed the decision of the Supreme Court and today the Supreme Court has upheld the same amendment. According to this, now FIR can be lodged without initial investigation.

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