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Supreme Court on Monday, adjourned the hearing on the petition seeking caste census. A bench by Justice Nageswara Rao today said one such petition is pending in another bench as well. The Maharashtra government had already filed a petition in the Supreme Court on the subject of caste census.

The Supreme Court on Wed...

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the interim report submitted by the State commission nominated by the state of Maharashtra, which recommended 27 percent reservation in favour of OBCs in local bodies elections in the State of Maharashtra.

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday reprimanded the Maharashtra government for insisting on holding local body elections on the basis of information and data already available with it concerning the Other Backward Classes, rather than submitting the same with the Maharashtra State Backward Classes Commission.

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the Maharashtra government’s petition seeking to direct the Central government to make public the raw data from the Caste-based census carried out in 2011. 

Dr. Bheemrao Ambedkar's work is also useful to members of the legal fraternity as well as to general people. Considering the nature of the grievance raised in the news item, we are treating it as a matter for public interest litigation," the bench said.

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has filed a short reply on a petition filed by the state of Maharashtra seeking Socio-Economic Caste Census 2011 (SECC-2011) with respect to OBCs within state, stating that there were inherent flaws in the manner of conducting Census and therefore

The Supreme Court has issued notice in a plea filed against the order of the Bombay High Court which had directed to register an FIR against erring officials in a case custodial violence and subsequent registration of FIR against the then Station house officer, Anil Deshmukh.