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Acting connected the caller directives by the Allahabad High Court asking Uttar Pradesh to modulate caste glorification, the State connected Sunday (September 22, 2025) issued a notification prohibiting caste-based governmental rallies, notation of the casts of accused persons successful constabulary stations and notation to caste connected vehicles, signboards etc.
Ordering a prohibition connected caste-based rallies, officiating Chief Secretary (CS) Deepak Kumar said they are organised for governmental purposes and beforehand caste struggle successful society, which is contrary to “public order” and “national unity.”
“Such rallies volition beryllium wholly banned successful the authorities of Uttar Pradesh,” said a notification issued by Mr Kumar.
In the notification, the Chief Secretary said the argumentation of the authorities authorities is to person an inclusive strategy with law values and successful an bid to execute the same, it is indispensable to destruct caste-based favoritism prevalent successful society.
Issued to each Secretaries, District Magistrates, and Police Chiefs, Mr Kumar added that officials indispensable guarantee strict monitoring of societal media messages that glorify oregon condemn immoderate caste.
“Strict enactment should beryllium taken against those who dispersed caste hatred oregon incite caste sentiments done societal media,” it read.
Vehicles displaying caste names oregon slogans/stickers volition beryllium challaned nether the applicable sections of the Central Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, it added. The notification further said that the signboards oregon glorification of caste done by ‘certain elements’ successful nationalist places oregon declaring geographical areas arsenic caste-based areas oregon estates, should beryllium instantly removed.
The CS besides directed the constabulary to travel up with National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) to delete the tract for entering the caste of the accused from the formats utilized connected the CCTNS portal. Until the NCRB makes this change, constabulary person been asked to permission the non-mandatory caste tract blank.
No notation of caste volition beryllium permitted for accused persons astatine constabulary stations, successful betterment panchnama, apprehension memo, and idiosyncratic hunt memo.
As framed by the High Court, the State has besides directed constabulary to see the mother’s sanction of the accused on with the sanction of the father’’s.
The State has, however, exempted caste notation successful crimes registered nether the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
A Bench of Justice Vinod Diwaker of the Allahabad High Court connected September 16 had directed the U.P. authorities to curb caste glorification. The observations were made during the proceeding of an exertion nether Section 482 CrPC, successful which it noted that the castes of the accused persons were mentioned successful the FIR and different related documents.
The tribunal came down heavy connected the constabulary and said that the investigative impartiality and enforcement neutrality indispensable beryllium consciously cultivated, particularly successful a nine where caste is pervasive.
“Writing oregon declaring the caste of an accused without ineligible relevance amounts to individuality profiling, not nonsubjective investigation. It reinforces prejudice, corrupts nationalist opinion, contaminates judicial thinking, violates cardinal rights, and undermines law morality,” it observed.
In a State similar U.P., wherever adjacent the governmental parties similar NISHAD party, Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party person caste-based names, ensuring implementation of the government’s directives volition beryllium a challenge, a elder authoritative told The Hindu.
