The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities ... evolving socio-legal landscape regarding caste-based atrocities. The SC/ST Act was passed on September 11, 1989, and ...

In what could be a first of its kind verdict, the Supreme Court recently upheld a Bombay High Court ruling that had allowed a ...

The Supreme Court recently upheld the Bombay High Court's judgment on the issue of compensation for intellectual property ...

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that abusing in the name of caste within "four corners of the chambers" of a public ...

The court held that a ‘mere insult or intimidation with a view to humiliate’ does not comprise an offence. While the incident ‘need not be in a public place, it has to be in public view’, the court sa ...

A Dalit woman and a Muslim man had an affair. The man’s mother opposed their marriage, hurling caste-based abuses at the ...

Allowing anticipatory bail under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, (SC/ST Act), the Punjab & Haryana High Court has made it clear that the Act can be ...

The Supreme Court on Friday quashed a case against a man booked under the SC/ST Act saying the alleged incident did not ...

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday stayed the investigation and legal proceedings against Infosys co-founder Kris ...

Telangana police said they have arrested under charges of murder and conspiracy, and those under the Scheduled Caste and ...

Later, the Revenue Inspector filed a complaint before the Lalgudi police against the appellant for using his caste ... the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act ...