India’s Supreme Court to hear case regarding invention

The Indian Supreme Court, while ordering trial of two Madhya Pradesh men for allegedly defrauding two Dalits of their “invention” to make petrol from polythene bags, has kept quiet on the authenticity of their claim. A bench of Justice Tarun Chatterjee and Justice H.L. Dattu restored the prosecution of the two men–Sanjay Singh and Jayendra Singh—on the grounds of having hurled casteist insults on the two Dalits after cheating them of their “discovery”. The Gohad magisterial court began the prosecution on a private complaint of Ram Babu, who alleged that the two Singhs had defrauded his sons Devendra Pratap and Munendra Pratap of a scientific process invented by them to make petrol out of polythene bags. (May 11, 2009)