The Supreme Court on Friday held that using foul or abusive language against a member of the SC/ST community would not be sufficient in itself to impose a case against a person under the SC/ST Act and remarks have to be casteist in nature to prosecute the person under the law. The apex court said that in order to slap penal provision of section 3(1)(x) of the SC/ST Act, it has to be proved that such remarks are made intentionally in a public place and the utterance should be laced with casteist remarks.
The top court quashed the case lodged against a person under the Act.
