Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has ruled that circulating videos and photographs of a person belonging to a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe community through WhatsApp can fall within the ambit of…
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Hardoi: The Hardoi administration has ordered an inquiry after a video purportedly showing a revenue official asking a youth about his caste during a land measurement exercise and threatening him with action…
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Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has held that the requirement of “public view” under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, can extend to the digital sphere, observing…
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Hathras: Members of several organisations staged a protest in Hathras on Tuesday against provisions of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Regulations, 2026, the reservation system and the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes…
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New Delhi: The Devendra Kula Vellalar (DKV) community in Tamil Nadu, which is currently included in the Scheduled Caste (SC) list, has sought its removal from the category, citing concerns over social…
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court is set to consider next week a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking measures to prevent the alleged misuse of criminal law through fabricated complaints and false cases,…
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Mumbai: The registration of an FIR naming IIT Bombay professor Suryanarayana Doolla as an accused in connection with the suicide of a Dalit student has triggered a debate over allegations of misuse…
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to entertain a petition challenging amendments made to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in 2015 and 2018. The amendments…
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Meerut: The Allahabad High Court has quashed criminal proceedings against 13 police personnel accused under provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, observing that every instance…
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Ghaziabad: The Allahabad High Court has expressed concern over the alleged misuse of provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in Uttar Pradesh and directed the state…
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