SC nixes Odisha’s ‘odious’ bail conditions to Adivasi, Dalit accused to clean police stations

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The subjects of these bail conditions are a radical  of indigenous radical   facing transgression  charges aft  their three-year-old protestation  against the acquisition of their onshore  for a Vedanta Group bauxite mining task  successful  Rayagada and Kalahandi districts allegedly turned violent.

The subjects of these bail conditions are a radical of indigenous radical facing transgression charges aft their three-year-old protestation against the acquisition of their onshore for a Vedanta Group bauxite mining task successful Rayagada and Kalahandi districts allegedly turned violent. | Photo Credit: Biswaranjan Rout

When the Odisha judiciary acceptable “odious” bail conditions, similar cleaning constabulary stations for 2 months, for members of Adivasi and Dalit communities, it suggested that judges had a “regressive mindset” and caste-based biases, the Supreme Court said connected Monday (May 4, 2026).

“Assuming that specified conditions were imposed inadvertently oregon without immoderate premeditated bias, the quality of the information is truthful abhorrent, degrading, and chartless to instrumentality that it carries the imaginable to formed a superior aspersion, suggesting that the Odisha Judiciary is afflicted by a caste-based bias,” a Bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi observed successful a seven-page order.

Published - May 04, 2026 09:52 p.m. IST

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