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The Uttar Pradesh government has issued a 10-point order to remove caste references from police records, vehicles, and public spaces. The decision comes after the Allahabad High Court 's recent ruling against caste glorification, which it called "anti-national." The court had earlier said that mentioning caste in FIRs and other police documents "amounts to identity profiling, not objective investigation."

Judicial intervention

Court's strong stance against caste glorification

The court, in its ruling, observed that such practices "reinforce prejudice, corrupt public opinion, contaminate judicial thinking, violate fundamental rights, and undermine constitutional morality." Justice Vinod Diwkar had also criticized caste-celebrating stickers and slogans on vehicles as

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