Modi: No dilution in SC/ST act will be accepted

New Delhi, April 13: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that his government will not allow dilution of SC-ST Act and special courts are being formed for speedy trial in cases of atrocities with the two communities.

Modi, who inaugurated Dr. Ambedkar National Memorial at Alipur Road here, said that his government had strengthened the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Protection of Atrocities Act) in 2015 by increasing the number of atrocities covered under it from 22 to 47.

Refuting allegations of Congress and some other parties that the government was trying to dilute the Act and had not represented the case properly in Supreme Court, he said the government filed a review petition within 12 days of the court verdict.