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 loss under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention ...

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that abusing in the name of caste within "four corners of the chambers" of a public official would not make an offence under the SC/ST Act.

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

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

Telangana police said they have arrested under charges of murder and conspiracy, and those under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

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 ...