Prayagraj, Feb. 13 -- Caste determined by birth remains unchanged despite conversion or intercaste marriage, the Allahabad high court has observed as it upheld a lower court's summons to a group of people under SC/ST Act crime. Justice Anil Kumar made the observation in an order dated February 10 while dismissing a criminal appeal filed by one Dinesh and eight others who challenged an order passed by a special judge in Aligarh, summoning them to face trial for offences under sections of Indian Penal Code and the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The order came on a woman's criminal complaint against the appellants, alleging she was assaulted and abused and that they used casteist slurs against her during ...