As many as 1,89,945 cases of crimes against the Dalit community were registered in the last four years according to a National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report, the government informed Parliament on Tuesday.
Union minister of state for home affairs Ajay Kumar Mishra was responding to a query raised by Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Girish Chandra who had asked for statistics on the number of incidents of attacks on Dalits since 2018 and urged the government to mention if there was any mechanism to monitor such incidents.
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In reply, MoS Mishra noted that the NCRB which compiles and publishes statistical data on crimes in its publication “Crime in India” had made a report which was published in 2021 and the data was in reference to the same.
He also mentioned that though the matters of police and public order was entirely under the state government’s rule, the MHA had been issuing advisories to States/UTs from time to time for effective implementation of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, and Rules.
On another query raised by All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on the attack on public representatives in the national Capital in the last two years, the MHA informed that four such cases were reported by the Delhi police.
MoS home affairs Nityanand Rai while replying to Owaisi wrote, “16 persons have been arrested in these four cases and charge sheet has been filed in two cases. All police officers have been directed to keep vigil in their respective area to avoid such incidents and to take legal action against the persons who are found indulged in such activities.”
