Thursday, October 7, 2021

‘Displaying Holy Cross no ground to cancel SC cert’

 ‘Displaying Holy Cross no ground to cancel SC cert’

K.Kaushik@timesgroup.com

Madurai:07.10.2021

Can a Holy Cross and other religious symbols and practices displayed by a dalit be cited to cancel his/her Scheduled Caste certificate? No, said the Madras high court, calling it a “bureaucratic narrow-mindedness” the Constitution never foresaw. In a recent order, the first bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice M Duraiswamy held that merely because a member of the dalit community married a Christian and her children have been recognised as members of her husband’s community, the SC certificate issued to her cannot be cancelled.

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