Laws For Dalits

The Bihar government has moved the Supreme Court challenging a Patna High Court verdict that has set aside amended reservation laws in the state, which enabled the Bihar government to increase the quotas for Dalits, tribals and backward classes.

The law and policy for Scheduled Caste certification must accept matrilineal bloodline

The Uttar Pradesh Police is mulling over slapping the stringent National Security Act against the six people arrested for the rape and murder of two Dalit sisters in the state's Lakhimpur Kheri.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati today termed the recent murder of four members of a Dalit family in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj as shameful and blamed the poor law and order situation under the BJP government for the incident.

The BJP took swipes at Rahul Gandhi on Friday over Twitter locking his account for violating company policy and Indian laws - by posting photographs that show him with the family of the nine-year-old Dalit girl allegedly raped and killed in Delhi.

Farmers protesting against the Centre's farm laws are teaming up with Dalits as part of their plan to take the protest across the country. The idea is to focus on eliminating the caste divide and give the protest a pan-Indian, broader base. A mahapanchayat with Dalits was held in Haryana's Hisar on Saturday, at the town of Barwala, which was atten...

Siddique Kappan, the Kerala journalist arrested in October on his way to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh to report on the alleged gang-rape of a Dalit woman, has been granted bail by the Supreme Court for five days, with conditions, to visit his mother.

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad -- one of the most prominent faces of countrywide protests against the citizenship law -- today launched his political group, which he called the "Azad Samaj Party". The launch took place on the birth anniversary of BSP founder and Dalit icon Kanshi Ram. The Bhim Army, Mr Azad said, will run parallel to the party...

Netflix’s most recent original series from India — Jamtara — has been called out for use of a casteist slur aimed at the Dalit community, sparking debate over the use of pejorative terms in the realm of fiction entertainment.

The Supreme Court has recalled a 2018 order that was seen to dilute provisions of a law protecting Dalits. This means the ban on automatic arrest in cases under Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities Act), 1989, and the need for sanction before arrests linked to violation of the law stand withdrawn.

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav today slammed the manner in which the Narendra Modi government had implemented 10% reservation for the economically backward among the upper castes, saying that its consequences will be just as damaging for the nation as the demonetisation initiative in 2016. "We strongly oppose the hasty way in which the ...

After three days of logjam over the Assam citizens' bill, parliament today saw ruckus over a plan to amend the Dalit atrocities law. The cabinet had given the green signal yesterday for the changes, that would involve doing away with the safeguards placed by the Supreme Court to prevent the abuse of the law.

In more alliance trouble for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, union minister Ram Vilas Paswan and his son Chirag Paswan have served an ultimatum over the appointment of a retired judge they say acted against Dalit interests. The Paswans have threatened that their Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) will join anti-government protests by Dalit organisations on Au...

Chirag Paswan, son of BJP ally Ram Vilas Paswan, has hinted that unless retired Supreme Court judge AK Goyal be sacked from the Green Court, the Dalit protests of August 9 will be far more intense than the one in April, during which violence swept five states. Justice Goyal was part of the Supreme Court Bench, which, Mr Paswan's party says, "dilute...

The death of a man at the hands of a mob in Alwar found resonance for a second day in parliament today as the opposition attacked the government over the wave of hatred sweeping the country. While in Rajya Sabha, the Trinamool Congress demanded a law to prevent killings by cow vigilantes, Dalit leader Mayawati accused the BJP of "allowing innocent ...

The Bihar government has moved the Supreme Court challenging a Patna High Court verdict that has set aside amended reservation laws in the state, which enabled the Bihar government to increase the quotas for Dalits, tribals and backward classes.

The law and policy for Scheduled Caste certification must accept matrilineal bloodline

The Uttar Pradesh Police is mulling over slapping the stringent National Security Act against the six people arrested for the rape and murder of two Dalit sisters in the state's Lakhimpur Kheri.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati today termed the recent murder of four members of a Dalit family in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj as shameful and blamed the poor law and order situation under the BJP government for the incident.

The BJP took swipes at Rahul Gandhi on Friday over Twitter locking his account for violating company policy and Indian laws - by posting photographs that show him with the family of the nine-year-old Dalit girl allegedly raped and killed in Delhi.

Farmers protesting against the Centre's farm laws are teaming up with Dalits as part of their plan to take the protest across the country. The idea is to focus on eliminating the caste divide and give the protest a pan-Indian, broader base. A mahapanchayat with Dalits was held in Haryana's Hisar on Saturday, at the town of Barwala, which was atten...

Siddique Kappan, the Kerala journalist arrested in October on his way to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh to report on the alleged gang-rape of a Dalit woman, has been granted bail by the Supreme Court for five days, with conditions, to visit his mother.

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad -- one of the most prominent faces of countrywide protests against the citizenship law -- today launched his political group, which he called the "Azad Samaj Party". The launch took place on the birth anniversary of BSP founder and Dalit icon Kanshi Ram. The Bhim Army, Mr Azad said, will run parallel to the party...

Netflix’s most recent original series from India — Jamtara — has been called out for use of a casteist slur aimed at the Dalit community, sparking debate over the use of pejorative terms in the realm of fiction entertainment.

The Supreme Court has recalled a 2018 order that was seen to dilute provisions of a law protecting Dalits. This means the ban on automatic arrest in cases under Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities Act), 1989, and the need for sanction before arrests linked to violation of the law stand withdrawn.

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav today slammed the manner in which the Narendra Modi government had implemented 10% reservation for the economically backward among the upper castes, saying that its consequences will be just as damaging for the nation as the demonetisation initiative in 2016. "We strongly oppose the hasty way in which the ...

After three days of logjam over the Assam citizens' bill, parliament today saw ruckus over a plan to amend the Dalit atrocities law. The cabinet had given the green signal yesterday for the changes, that would involve doing away with the safeguards placed by the Supreme Court to prevent the abuse of the law.

In more alliance trouble for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, union minister Ram Vilas Paswan and his son Chirag Paswan have served an ultimatum over the appointment of a retired judge they say acted against Dalit interests. The Paswans have threatened that their Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) will join anti-government protests by Dalit organisations on Au...

Chirag Paswan, son of BJP ally Ram Vilas Paswan, has hinted that unless retired Supreme Court judge AK Goyal be sacked from the Green Court, the Dalit protests of August 9 will be far more intense than the one in April, during which violence swept five states. Justice Goyal was part of the Supreme Court Bench, which, Mr Paswan's party says, "dilute...

The death of a man at the hands of a mob in Alwar found resonance for a second day in parliament today as the opposition attacked the government over the wave of hatred sweeping the country. While in Rajya Sabha, the Trinamool Congress demanded a law to prevent killings by cow vigilantes, Dalit leader Mayawati accused the BJP of "allowing innocent ...