{"id":1039291,"date":"2026-09-29T07:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039291"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:06:10","slug":"casteist-remark-even-on-facebook-or-other-social-media-can-fall-under-sc-st-act-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/casteist-remark-even-on-facebook-or-other-social-media-can-fall-under-sc-st-act-hc\/","title":{"rendered":"Casteist remark even on Facebook or other social media can fall under SC\/ST Act: HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Calcutta High Court has said that caste-based abuse posted on social media can come within the scope of the SC\/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, observing that the idea of \u201cpublic view\u201d is not restricted to physical spaces. The court made the observation while ordering a fresh investigation into a complaint filed by a Behala resident who alleged that he was targeted with casteist remarks in Facebook posts, a TOI report stated. <\/p>\n<p>Justice Uday Kumar, in an order dated September 25, said the concept of public view can extend to the \u201cdigital domain\u201d when offences covered under Section 3(1)(r) and 3(1)(s) of the SC\/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act are alleged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Calcutta High Court has said that caste-based abuse posted on social media can come within the scope of the SC\/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, observing that the idea of \u201cpublic view\u201d is not restricted to physical spaces. The court made the observation while ordering a fresh investigation into a complaint filed by a Behala resident who alleged that he was targeted with casteist remarks in Facebook posts, a TOI report stated. Justice Uday Kumar, in an order dated September 25, said the concept of public view can extend to the \u201cdigital domain\u201d when offences covered under Section 3(1)(r) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039311,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039291\/revisions\/1039311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}