The caste or religion of an accused person has no relevance when a court is deciding his case and the same should never be mentioned in the title of the judgment, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday.
The data shared by the APPSC show that of the 19 IITs that have SC/ST Cells, only 12 have web pages. At IIT Guwahati, while the SC/ST Cell has no web page, it is the only IIT where the Cell has not only conducted events, but has also been allocated funds and a separate room to function.
Despite a string of measures to make campuses inclusive spaces, at some of India’s premier engineering colleges, caste remains a vexing issue. Pallavi Smart on how caste-based discrimination takes on many forms. One of which is a question.