SC to hear Ashis Nandy's plea against arrest today

February 01, 2013 08:57

The Supreme Court will today hear sociologist Ashis Nandy's petition seeking protection from arrest for an alleged anti-Dalit remark he made at the Jaipur Literary Festival earlier this week.

Nandy has also urged the court to quash the FIR registered against him under the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act.

At a panel discussion at the literary festival on January 26, Nandy had said, "Most corrupt people come from the Other Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes."

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