The Supreme Court's lawyer said that collating such information would involve significant resources and will be exempted from disclosure under the RTI Act.
These directives are emblematic of a governance posture that presumes citizens must be fully visible to the State, while the State remains opaque to the citizen.
In a recent judgment, the Supreme Court moved from evidentiary uncertainty to doctrinal certainty without examining the underlying assumption that caste ceases with conversion.
Not every dispute is suited for mediation and the system must retain the ability to distinguish between cases that can be settled and those that must be adjudicated.