New Delhi, 30 January : The Supreme court of India has passed a general order stating that mentioning the caste or religion of any litigant in case papers should be stopped. Starting with the Supreme Court, the bench then directed its registry to ascertain no such details of litigants shall be mentioned in the case files, produced before the judges for hearing. A bench comprising of Justice Hima Kohli and Justice Ahsanuddin Amanuallh were hearing a transfer petition in a family dispute between a couple and where caste of the parties was mentioned in the memo, upon which the court expressed its dissatisfaction and marked that such practice of mentioning the litigants’ caste to be ‘shunned and ceased’. The top court then proceeded to ensure the high and district judiciaries to obey the decision accordingly.