Criterion for Scheduled Caste Status
Recently, the Central Government has notified a Commission under former Chief Justice of India and former chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) K G Balakrishnan “to examine the matter of according Scheduled Caste (SC) status to new persons, who claim to historically have belonged to the Scheduled Castes, but have converted to religions other than those mentioned in the Presidential Orders issued from time to time under Article 341 of the Constitution”.
Background
- Earlier, the Supreme Court of India has sought the most recent position of the Union government on a batch of petitions challenging the Constitution (Scheduled ....
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