The court set aside orders cancelling a Special Backward Category (SBC) caste certificate issued to an abandoned child who was later legally adopted. A bench of Justices M S Karnik and S M Modak, on ...

Nagpur: In an important ruling reinforcing settled law on caste verification, the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court recently granted Scheduled Tribe validity certificates to two siblings from Buldhana ...

MUMBAI: The tribal development department has detected large-scale misuse of caste certificates in admissions to professional courses for the academic year 2025-26. Using its newly launched online ...

The Supreme Court of India Friday delivered its ruling wherein it held that the affinity test is not a litmus test to decide a caste name and is not an essential part of the process of the ...

MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Friday held that an adopted child is entitled to take the caste of his or her adoptive parents and ordered revenue authorities to issue a Special Backward Class ...

​Mumbai: ​Days after the BJP-led Mahayuti government scrapped the order on issuing caste certificates and caste validity ...

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government has extended the tenure of the genealogy committees, constituted at the taluka level, till June 30, 2026, for the issuance of caste and caste validity certificates ...