In 2009, Atlapakala Rama Krishna challenged the rejection of his caste certificate. Last week, the Andhra Pradesh High Court ...

VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh High Court has made it clear that the burden of proving that the individual does not belong to the claimed caste rests with the a ...

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Friday refused to grant an 18-year-old student the Scheduled Category (SC) status of his mother as his estranged father belonged to the Other Backward Class (OBC) ...

Mumbai: Bombay High Court recently asked the state govt to form a committee to consider allowing applicants to provide details of their mother's social status on the ‘Aaple Sarkar' portal for ...

The caste certificate of a person, belonging to Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe, seeking public employment requires to be validated as per the law if the caste certificates of parents of such person ...

The Chhattisgarh High Court overturned a Caste Scrutiny Committee's decision to revoke a postal worker's ST certificate. The court found the committee violated procedural fairness by denying ...

The Bombay High Court has dismissed an 18-year-old student’s plea seeking recognition as a member of the Scheduled Caste (SC) ‘Chambhar’ community, observing that he had not faced any social ...

The Kerala State Public Service Commission (PSC) has no power to conduct an inquiry into an applicant’s caste status and determine his or her caste, a Division Bench of the Kerala High Court has ruled ...

In a significant move, the central government has approved a caste census, which means castes will be counted in the upcoming national census. This development could make it mandatory for many ...

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government to form a committee to examine whether individuals can provide details of their mother’s caste or social status on the ‘Aaple ...

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that women candidates who were originally residents of another State and later shifted ...