Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal in Land Dispute Involving Scheduled Caste Status and Statutory Violations. The court held that Scheduled Caste status is state-specific under the Constitution and cannot be claimed by a migrant in another state, and the land transaction was void as it violated Section 42 of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 and Section 13 of the Rajasthan Colonization Act, 1954....
The dispute centered on land in Rajasthan originally allotted to Chunilal, a Scheduled Caste person, who allegedly borrowed money from Puran Singh, a non-Scheduled Caste person, and fraudulently execu...
