The Madras High Court has ruled that an individual\u2019s caste couldn\u2019t change on account of their conversion from one religion to another.<\/span><\/p>\n A person <\/span>originally belonging to the Adi- Dravidar Community had married a person from the Hindu Arunthathiyar community, both of which are originally Scheduled Caste.<\/span><\/p>\n However, the person later converted to Christianity and was later given a ‘Backward Class’ Certificate (As per law, <\/span>Dalit-converts are treated as backward community (BC) members and not as SCs)<\/span>. On the basis of the Backward class certificate, <\/span>he applied for an inter-caste marriage certificate.<\/span><\/p>\n Note:<\/b> In Tamil Nadu, a marriage between a member of the SC\/ST community and someone from any other community or between a member of the BC community and someone from another community is considered an \u2018inter-caste\u2019 marriage. Such unions are eligible for several welfare benefits, including priority consideration for government jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n However, the Tamil Nadu Government refused to issue the inter-caste certificate as both husband and wife belonged to the SC community by birth.<\/span><\/p>\n After the refusal, the person filed a writ of mandamus petition in Madras High Court seeking the inter-caste marriage certificate be issued.<\/span><\/p>\n Note:<\/b> The writ of mandamus is issued by a court to compel a public authority to perform legal duties it either has not performed or has refused to.<\/span><\/p>\n The Madras High Court dismissed the writ petition and upheld the Tamil Nadu government refusal to issue an inter-caste marriage certificate to the petitioner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The court said that the very purpose and object of the issuance of an inter-caste marriage certificate is to provide certain welfare schemes.<\/span><\/p>\n But the inter-caste marriage certificate could be issued only if one of the spouses belongs to the Scheduled Caste and the other spouse belongs to the other caste, but not otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n In this case, as both persons belong to <\/span>the SC community and an individual\u2019s caste couldn\u2019t change on account of their conversion from one religion to another. Hence, the inter-caste certificate can’t be issued.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article \u201c<\/b>Religious conversion does not change caste, says Madras high court<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in TOI <\/b>on 26th Nov 2021.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Madras High Court has ruled that an individual\u2019s caste couldn\u2019t change on account of their conversion from one religion to another. What is the issue? A person originally belonging to the Adi- Dravidar Community had married a person from the Hindu Arunthathiyar community, both of which are originally Scheduled Caste.… Continue reading Religious conversion does not change caste, says Madras high court<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704731699},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the issue?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What did the court say?<\/b><\/h5>\n