TNPSC Thervupettagam

SC judgment on religious conversion

December 3 , 2024 9 days 114 0
  • 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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