Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 753 · Decided 3 October 2024
Sukanya Shantha v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 753 · [2024] 10 S.C.R. 493
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 1404/2023
- Decided
- 3 October 2024
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, J.B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 15, 17, 21, 15(1)
Headnote
Matter pertains to caste-based discrimination in the prisons in the country. Constitution of India - Arts.14, 15, 17, 21, and 23 - Prisons in India - Caste-based discrimination - Writ petition seeking directions for repeal of in State Prison Manuals - Petitioner's case that various State Prison Manuals sanction unconstitutional practices, violative of Arts 14, 15, 17, 21, and 23; that caste-based discrimination continues to persist in the prisons with respect to division of manual labour; segregation of
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