Overview

• Deleting caste entries is mandated across FIRs, recovery, arrest and surrender memos, police final reports, and station notice boards, with a new identification field for the mother’s name.
• The court urged amendments to the Central Motor Vehicles Rules to prohibit caste emblems and slogans on all vehicles and to impose fines for violations.
• Authorities must act under the IT Rules, 2021 to curb caste‑glorifying content on platforms such as Instagram, YouTube Shorts and Facebook Reels, supported by monitoring and reporting systems.
• The bench dismissed the Uttar Pradesh DGP’s justification for recording caste as a legal fallacy and warned that such profiling fosters prejudice and infringes fundamental rights.
• The order stemmed from a Section 482 CrPC petition that was not quashed, copies were sent to state and Union officials for follow‑up, and the directions are binding in Uttar Pradesh with central rule changes to be considered separately.