User of derogatory terms for Northeastern people is to be legally punished

Making a revolutionary and much awaited decision in favour of eliminating discrimination prevailing in the country, the Ministry of Home Affairs informed the Delhi High Court today that it has decided to amend the IPC to strengthen the legal framework against racial discrimination. This means, the people of Northeast India who are often being ill-treated by the people from the rest of the places of India and are often made to bear the derogatory terms and abuses, will not have to suffer from it any more. There will be legal punishments for the ones who abuses people from the Northeast.

A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath said, “The Ministry of Home Affairs is in process of finalising a comprehensive bill for insertion of new sections of 153C and 509A in Indian Penal Code (IPC) which will be introduced in Parliament after Inter-Ministerial consultation.”

The MHA opt to amend the actions against the racial discriminators as a result of the recommendation of the MK Bezbaruah Committee constituted in February 2014, following a spate of attacks against people from the NE region living in Delhi. Thus, the proposed Section 153C makes clear that both spoken and written terms that are derogatory and prejudicial to the people of the Northeast, any signs attempting to discriminate or indulging in activity intended to use criminal force or violence against a particular race will be considered as a non-bailable offence punishable with imprisonment up to five years with fine.

Remarkably, there are many recent incidents of discrimination and harmful attack on people from Northeast that has taken place in Delhi and in other parts of the country. Another Section, the proposed Section 509A seeks to make any word, gesture or act intended to insult a member of a particular race with imprisonment that may extend to three years with fine. 

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