Justice Abhay S. Oka To Deliver The Vimukta Diwas Lecture On 'Indian Constitution & Denotified Tribes' [22nd September]

LiveLaw With Criminal Justice & Police Accountability Project is hosting the Vimukta Diwas Lecture on 'Indian Constitution & Denotified Tribes'

Vimukta Diwas is celebrated to  create awareness about the Denotified Tribes. These were termed as criminals as per the Criminal Tribes Act, 1871, under the British Rule. The colonial law provided extensive powers of surveillance of these communities, compulsory registration, taking fingerprints, to the police with no rights afforded to those criminalized for questioning these provisions. Post-Independence, an Enquiry Committee set up to review the act recommended its consequent repeal in 1952. But the spectre of the CTA remains, haunting members of Denotified Tribes to this day.