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SC judgment on religious conversion
December 3 , 2024
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- The Supreme Court (Selvarani Case) held that religious conversion without any actual belief, largely intended to procure quota benefits, defeats the social ethos of the reservation policy and amounts to a fraud on the Constitution.
- The judgment was based on an appeal filed by a woman from Puducherry, Selvarani - a Christian by birth.
- She sought conferment of a Scheduled Caste community certificate on the ground that she had embraced Hinduism.
- If the purpose of conversion is largely to derive the benefits of reservation but not with any actual belief on the other religion, cannot be permitted.
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