C.A. No. 013086 / 2024

C. SELVARANI vs THE SPECIAL SECRETARY CUM DISTRICT COLLECTOR

Status

DISPOSED

Judges

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE J.B. PARDIWALA and HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE R. MAHADEVAN

Order Date

26-11-2024

Citation

2024 INSC 900

Filed On

13-03-2023 11:45 AM

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AI Summary

A Scheduled Caste community certificate under a Presidential Order can only be issued to a person professing Hinduism, Sikhism, or Buddhism, and baptism into Christianity precludes such entitlement regardless of prior caste certificates issued; further, reconversion requires positive demonstrable acts beyond mere oral claims.