The court underscored that this loss of status carries with it the termination of all statutory protections, reservations and ...

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has said that merely using abusive language against a member of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes cannot be an offence under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and ...

BHUBANESWAR: At least 20 per cent of cases registered under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of ...

The court’s reasoning on conversion and Scheduled Caste status rests on a set of constitutional and statutory rules that tie ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that merely using abusive language against a person belonging to a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe does not automatically constitute an offence under the SC/ST Act ...

PRAYAGRAJ: Observing that caste of a person assigned at the time of one's birth remained same even if one changed religion or entered into an inter-caste marriage, Allahabad high court, in its ...

A plea was filed in the Supreme Court challenging a recently notified University Grants Commission (UGC) regulation, alleging that it has adopted a non-inclusionary definition of caste-based ...

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court assailing the constitutional validity of Regulation 3(c) of the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) ...