India has rejected a UN watchdog’s report highlighting ethnic and caste discrimination in the country and asking the government to protect its tribals and disadvantaged groups from extrajudicial killings.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), following a periodic review, expressed "grave concern" over reports of law enforcement agencies targeting ethno-religious groups, indigenous and tribal people, including those from the lower rungs of the archaic Hindu caste system, and non-citizens.
