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Supreme Court recalls 2018 order diluting provisions of arrest under SC/ST Act, says struggle for equality not yet over

The Supreme Court on Tuesday recalled its direction in the 20 March 2018 verdict which had virtually diluted provisions of arrest under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocity) Act

Payal Tadvi suicide case: Bombay HC questions Maharashtra govt over delay in recording statements of key witnesses

Dr Payal Tadvi ended her life in a hostel room at Mumbai's Nair hospital, allegedly after facing harassment from her seniors due to her caste.

Modi's 10% quota plan: PM's switch hit has reverse-Mandalised Indian politics, caught Opposition off-guard

Narendra Modi has not just reversed the direction of the political narrative by offering 10 percent reservation for upper castes, but also changed his stance on the issue, to hit the prevailing Mandal logic out of the park

Gujarat auto driver made to crawl on road for harassing woman; lodges counter-FIR alleging casteist slurs hurled at him

Four persons have been arrested in Gujarat's Junagadh district for thrashing a Dalit auto driver and forcing him to crawl on a pubic road for allegedly harassing a woman, police said Wednesday.

Karni Sena demands review of SC/ST Act, 'next course of action' to be decided on 24 October

A Rajput community outfit Sunday sought changes in the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act to ensure that a person is arrested for an offence under the law only after a probe into the allegations against him or her.

Pre-teens in UP village boycott mid day meal prepared by ‘lower’ caste cook; school throws food after protests

Students of a primary school in an Uttar Pradesh village refused to have mid day meal on Friday as they couldn't stomach the fact that it was prepared by a woman from a Scheduled Caste

'Giving whole chocolate to kid not good, but can't snatch it back suddenly,' Speaker Sumitra Mahajan explains quota to BJP workers

The Lok Sabha (on 6 August) and the Rajya Sabha (on 9 August) had passed the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Bill to overturn a Supreme Court order concerning certain safeguards against arrest under this Act.

Bharat Bandh: Madhya Pradesh protests against SC/ST Act, security beefed up as over 150 groups plan to agitate

Brahma Samagam Sawarna Jankalyan Sangathan's national president Dharmendra Sharma said that about 150 organisations of upper castes and OBCs would participate in the Bharat bandh against the amendments in SC/ST Act.

Groups representing 'unreserved' category to hold march in Noida tomorrow to protest SC/ST Act amendments

Multiple social groups representing people from the "unreserved" category in Gautam Buddh Nagar will take out a march on Thursday to protest the amendments in the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

SC/ST Act: Madhya Pradesh on high alert as upper caste groups plan protest against reviving 'diluted' law

Several upper caste groups in Madhya Pradesh have brought thousands of youths together for a massive rally in Gwalior on Tuesday. The protest is a sign of their ire with the BJP-led Centre for working to bring back stringent clauses of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.