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 ...

VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh High Court has made it clear that the burden of proving that the individual does not belong to the claimed caste rests with the a ...

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 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 ...

Also, those who feel they have been denied caste certificates for inapt reasons; they can appeal to the Chairman of Caste Verification Committee. The committee has quasi-judicial status and its ...