<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The Centre has informed the Supreme Court that its recent judgement on the SC/ST Act has diluted the provisions of the law, resulting in great damage to the country.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The government said that the top court verdict on 20th of March has caused &quot;commotion&quot;, &quot;anger, unease and a sense of disharmony&quot; in the country.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In his written submission yesterday, Attorney General K K Venugopal said that through its judgement on the 1989 Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the court has not filled the gaps in the SC/ST Act but rather amended it through judicial legislation, thus defeating the salutary provisions of this law.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The Centre stressed that separation of powers between the legislature, the executive and the judiciary was &quot;inviolable'.</div>