Overview

• Justice Vinod Diwakar ordered Uttar Pradesh to delete caste fields from FIRs, recovery, arrest and surrender memos, final reports, and police‑station notice boards.
• The order requires adding the mother’s name alongside father or husband for identification and deems caste‑based profiling a breach of constitutional morality.
• The court urged amendments to Central Motor Vehicle Rules to ban caste emblems and slogans on all vehicles, with enforcement through removals and fines, and the clearing of caste‑based signboards.
• It called for stronger action under the IT Rules, 2021 against caste‑glorifying or hate‑inducing online content and encouraged education and sensitisation initiatives across schools and public services.
• Directions are binding within Uttar Pradesh with narrow statutory exceptions such as cases under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, and the liquor‑smuggling petition before the court was dismissed.