'No mention of caste': UP bans refence in police records; rallies, vehicles under scanner

NEW DELHI: The Uttar Pradesh authorities connected Monday ordered a implicit prohibition connected caste-based references successful constabulary records and astatine nationalist places pursuing an Allahabad High Court bid to extremity caste-based discrimination.Chief caput Deepak Kumar instructed each departments that caste volition nary longer beryllium mentioned successful First Information Reports (FIRs), apprehension memos, oregon different constabulary documents. Instead, the names of parents volition beryllium utilized for recognition purposes.The bid further directs that caste symbols, slogans, and references displayed connected constabulary presumption noticeboards, vehicles, oregon signboards indispensable beryllium removed immediately.However, the authorities clarified that exemptions volition use successful cases filed nether the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, wherever identifying caste remains a indispensable ineligible requirement.Meanwhile, caste-based rallies person besides been prohibited crossed the state, with instrumentality enforcement tasked to guarantee strict monitoring of societal media platforms to forestall violations.The authorities besides said vehicles displaying caste names oregon slogans glorifying caste volition beryllium penalised nether the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 1988.