A workshop of special public prosecutors from all the 21 civil districts was held at Mantralaya here on Sunday.
Principal Secretary Chhattisgarh law and legislative Affairs Department, AK Samant Ray presided over the workshop. During the workshop, special public prosecutors were informed about comprehensive amendments made in the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. The amendments were made by the Government of India in the year 2015 and the Union Ministry of law and Justice had published it in the Gazette of India on January 1, 2016.
The Principal Secretary informed that the amended Act has come to effect from January 26, 2016. He gave detailed information about various crimes falling under Section 3 of the Act.
He informed that the amendments have not only expanded the crime categories but has done necessary changes in the concept section and made the Act more powerful so that technical reasons may not come in the way of proving offences falling under this Act and also the Act may succeed in attaining its objective.