"We have held that assigning cleaning and sweeping to marginalized and assigning cooking to higher caste is nothing but a violation of Article 15," the judges said.
"Such indirect uses of phrases which target so-called lower castes cannot be used within our constitutional framework, even if caste is not explicitly mentioned, 'menial' etc targets the same."
"All such provisions [enabling caste discrimination] are held to be unconstitutional," the judges added.
"Until now, prisons allocated inmates from oppressed communities to carry out menial jobs, promoting caste-based allocations of work, which is against the constitution."
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