India's prisons should not discriminate based on caste, including assigning "impure" work to inmates from disadvantaged communities, the Supreme Court has said. The Supreme Court in India ordered ...

Noting that ’there cannot be any stigma attached to the existence, touch or presence of any person’, the Supreme Court has called caste-based discrimination in prisons ‘unconstitutional’. It has asked ...

It was contended that caste-based discrimination continues to persist in the prisons in the country with respect to the division of manual labour, segregation of barracks; and provisions that ...

The person they eventually found voiced his protest at the inter-caste union; Amitabh was a non-Bengali brahmin, while Jaya was a Bengali-brahmin. In a recent episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati, Amitabh ...