Mumbai: A special court on Thursday convicted Anish Trivedi, a columnist under the Prevention of Atrocities Act for making casteist comments in a write-up published in a local tabloid.
Anish Trivedi had written on the bad state of affairs at government offices and attributed it to the reservation policy.
The special court today convicted Trivedi and sentenced him to six months' imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on him.
The case dates back to April 30, 2006, when Trivedi wrote an article titled 'Children of a lesser God', blaming caste-based reservations for bad governance.
A case was then registered under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act after some Dalit activists filed a complaint.
"The column was derogatory and directly attacked the Dalits. He not only tried connecting the inefficient government offices with caste reservations, but at several places he made distasteful comments, which were clearly casteist," said public prosecutor Shrikant Dukhande.
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