On 16th July 2023, Sundar Iyer, the main defendant in the Cisco Caste case, shared his experience at the Caste Con’23 on the legal battle that he fought because of a bogus case of caste discrimination filed against him and his colleague Ramana Kompella by a person identified as ‘John Doe’. Contrary to CRD’s claims, Iyer said not only did …
This will hopefully provoke the creation of caste as new grounds for discrimination in the United States. The varying subjective threshold of what may constitute “harassment” interferes with John Doe’s caste identity and legitimises a disbelief of Doe’s allegations. The case of “Dalit distrust” is further strengthened when an offence under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes Act, 1989 …
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