Lawrence
King, a reader at department of sociology at the UK's Cambridge
University in a research, funded by UK Economic and Social Research
Council, criticized the Government of India for continuing with the Sedition Laws introduced by the British in 1870. The Report further states that The tribals of India suffered first at the hands of the British
Raj and more recently through exploitation by the Indian Ruling elites
and Big Business. The Report then delves deep into the health issues and
submits that the health of one group, i.e. Scheduled Tribes (broadly
speaking indigenous people), is significantly worse than that of any
other—including Scheduled Castes (untouchables). In 2005—06, the under-5
mortality rate was 74·3 per 1000 for the general population, 88·1 per
1000 for untouchables, and 95·7 per 1000 for tribal people; Similarly
the proportions of undernourished children were 42·5%, 47·9%, and 54·5%,
respectively for the said set of people for the said period. Further,
for the same period the proportions of women with anaemia was 55·3%,
58·3%, and 68·5%, respectively for General, S.C's and S.T's.
RIGHT TO INFORMATION & EVIDENCE This is a time when lot of information is being gathered with the help of RTI Act. In fact there are specialists in the field popularly known as RTI Activists. Without going into the motive of the RTI Activists and thinking purely from legal point of view the question arises is “Does the information gathered under the RTI Act can be termed as a good evidence under the Evidence Act”. The Information given under the RTI Act is in reply to the information sought by the Applicant under the RTI Act. Thus reply is correlated to the query and has to be in context of information that is sought. Thus any reply can never be read in isolation and has to be read along with the information sought. Further, the information may not be complete and it is only based on what is there in record and is in reply to the query and therefore it is important to have the copy of the documents based on which the information is provided. This certified copy can be ter...
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