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MI’m posting this anonymously as I am a serving officer in a state government electricity distribution company in Haryana. I am from the Scheduled Caste (SC) community.
On Sunday, April 20, 2025, I was suddenly called to an urgent meeting at a local office where a senior minister of the Haryana government was present, along with my superiors and fellow engineers.
The issue was about a pending work in my assigned area due to unavailability of 50 sq mm cable in the department store. I explained that 95 sq mm cable could not be issued either due to lack of allocation. This fact was known to my SE (senior officer), who had verbally instructed me to attempt alternate arrangements.
However, despite the technical justification, the minister got angry and started abusing me. He asked my caste directly. Upon learning that I belong to the SC category, he started shouting caste slurs at me, saying things like:
“People like you should be locked up and beaten with shoes.”
In front of several officers, he made me **hold my ears and publicly apologize**, purely out of ego and caste prejudice. This has caused deep trauma and humiliation.
I am exploring legal options under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, IPC sections 504 & 506, and considering a complaint to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Human Rights Commission.
I’m writing here to ask:
1. Can I still file an FIR if I’m under departmental pressure?
2. Has anyone seen similar caste-based abuse by politicians?
3. How can I create a record of this legally without risking my job?I don’t want this incident to go unnoticed. Today it’s me, tomorrow it could be someone else in the system.
Any advice or support is appreciated. 🙏
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SThis is the situation in 2025 and people ask what’s the need of reservation?
I hope you get justice, Sir. And please don’t hesitate no matter how much your seniors pressurise you.-
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MReservation tries to address the problem where the marginalised community at least gets a representation, a voice. While I am no fan of the same, India needs it in current times.
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SNo it doesnt, people treating you like an asshole should not allow you to get employment and/or selection benefits over others
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MWell it does actually, else the very same people will never get any jobs ever. That’s what reservations are all about.
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SThen reservation should be on the basis of poverty and not caste, correct?
Otherwise it merely becomes preferential treatment
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MLook up the poorest communities of India and check their caste. Metro view does not reflect ground reality in rest of the country.
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SIf reservation was effective, then they wouldn’t be the poorest communities, would they?
I agree that the metro view does not reflect ground reality in the rest of the country, so maybe reservation should be made applicable in only those areas where these poor communities exist then? Would it help then? Do you see the picture now?
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VGuy posts asking for help about legalities after facing discrimination in his work by someone not even in his chain of command and this guy goes ‘reservation should only be for poor people’ like EWS quota isn’t already there, and acts like SC,ST, OBC are all ambani level rich.
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MHundreds of years of discrimination cannot be wiped out by 60 years of reservation. We still live in a country where Dalits are not allowed to drink water from upper caste wells. Dalit grooms are killed for riding horses and so on. Everyone is frustrated with the reservations myself included. The person who decided the reservations has maybe a couple of dozen degrees to his name, so maybe his thought process must have been correct and definitely better than you or me.
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SReally ? have a look at developed countries, tell me how many years of reservations they had for their poor and backward classes
The only point I am trying to make so far is that reservation has no correlation with discrimination, but if you are not willing to accept that submission, there is nothing I can do about it
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VThat’s what EWS Quota does. If you actually looked at the reservation percentage you could read that much.
Like how only savarnas got preferential treatment everywhere continuously for thousands of years
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SGreat, then let the quotas like ews persist and remove the caste based quotas, the problem solves itself
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SI gave the solution already, reservation benefits should be given on basis of poverty status rather than caste, it would solve the problem
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SReservation? It wont, thats what my original reply was
But perhaps op can look into relevant provisions of the sc st act which has laws against discrimination, the same law where some people from infosys are facing discrimination lawsuits
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VSo there’s no point in reservation, all obc and below should just stay in their village? Never get educated? Never be part of democracy? Never get upliftment? What are you getting at
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IBy bringing in transparency, by distributing every work into granular bits, so that responsibility for any action or inaction is automatically allocated. Reservation doesn’t solve a thing. It just gives the semblance of inequality, and makes some people disadvantaged by this inequality & some people advantaged by this inequality. Obviously, the disadvantaged here would loathe the advantages, and the minister types will play along the fault lines.
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WYou sound like a corporate guys who say a lot of words to sound like they know what they’re talking about but absolutely failing.
A whole lotta talking but not much sense.
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IHow does transparency & setting accountability not make sense? Seems like you are a rabid bhakt.
A whole lotta bigotry, but no actual value added.
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WTransparency on what, what’s granular bit, accountability for what, are you gonna follow everyone around to make sure they aren’t discrimating all the time? Are you gonna make sure everyone gets equal treatment by giving them the exact same education and resources?
You can’t just spew corporate mumbo jumbo and act like everyone gets what you are talking about.
I don’t even consider myself hindu, and haven’t supported hinduism much less right wing politics anywhere in the comments and there you go making personal accusations about me being a bhakth.
Also point out where I was being a bigot.
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ICorporate mumbo jumbo: seems like you live in the stone ages, and not know what a digital system is, what a workforce allocation system is, what a workflow syndication system is, what defined processes & workflow are. If I take your words for the sake of them, you may not be a bhakt, but you definitely are aloof about the world. Are you sure you are not Amish?
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W‘Don’t have a retort so I’m gonna just say more words from a specific computer science field so everyone knows I’m smarter’.
Since you just went halfway across the world to USA to find the Amish insult I’m gonna give you some positive affirmations just because I find your reasonings ‘special’,
MelaninRush, you are doing a good job, few more words and you could join Elon Musk’s DOGE team.
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IThings that people do in real life are ‘more words from a specific computer science field’. Either you are a child or Amish or definitely as your username suggests, a bored imp. Btw, many such suggestions/ solutions have many times being given to GOI, as has been mentioned by many former secretaries to GOI, but they never adopted it.
Maybe, don’t come back here. Pickup a book.
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VDoesn’t matter how rich you are or how much you grow in life. Someone or the other will keep discriminating and it’s so depressing tbh
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SExactly. OP is officer and yet he had to face humiliation cuz of his caste. Can’t imagine what people belonging to lower income group face daily.
And before anyone objects this I want to make it clear that I do not belong to SC/ST. You don’t have to belong to a particular group to understand their plight.
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V>And before anyone objects this I want to make it clear that I do not belong to SC/ST. You don’t have to belong to a particular group to understand their plight.
The fact that you have to even mention this speaks volume of the situation. I guess people who never face it personally will never understand it themselves.
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