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 ...

Special Court in Theni sentences two Caste Hindu persons to life imprisonment for attempting to murder Scheduled Caste persons.

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

State secretary, addresses caste violence, sexual violence, education funding, and agricultural compensation in Tamil Nadu.

The Supreme Court recently upheld the Bombay High Court's judgment on the issue of compensation for intellectual property loss under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention ...

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

Dalit couple Shiv Shankar Das and Kshipra Kamlesh Uke secure landmark compensation for intellectual property loss under the ...

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 ...

Melapidavur: A Dalit student was attacked in Tamil Nadu’s Sivagangai district by three upper-caste Hindu men. The victim, a ...

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

The case before the HC involved a cab driver, Matra Susra, who was in a scuffle with another driver at the Rajkot airport. An FIR was registered against Susra under Section 115(2) of the Bharatiya ...