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

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 ...

Chhattisgarh High Court rules that migrants cannot transfer their caste status between states. Case involved forged documents for claiming Scheduled Tribe status. Committee cancels caste certificate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Marathas seeking OBC reservation under the Kunbi caste are appeased for now. But the draft notification introduces a new way of establishing caste identity The grand Maratha march culminated over ...