Discrimination Again
Dare you call a person from the North-East region ‘Chinki’, ‘Chinese’ or ‘Chow mein’. Now, you might land up in jail for doing that!
With growing incidents of alleged racial discrimination and verbal abuse against citizens of the North-East, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has sent a letter to all states and Union Territories, asking them to book offenders guilty of atrocity against people from the region under the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act since a significant number of persons from the North-East belong to the Scheduled Tribes. Under the law, an offender can end up spending five years in jail and the accused could be denied anticipatory bail. Read more
Source : www.deccanherald.com
