The Supreme Court upheld a Madras High Court decision denying a Scheduled Caste certificate to a woman born as a Christian who claimed to be Hindu while applying for an Upper Division Clerk job in Puducherry. The Court ruled that religious conversion undertaken solely to access reservation benefits, without genuine belief in the adopted religion, undermines the fundamental. The Court …
In the last week, the Supreme Court has in Asian Resurfacing of Road Agency v. CBI, by order dated 15 October 2020 reiterated that whatever stay granted by any court, including the High Court, automatically expires within a period of six months, unless extension is granted for good reason, as per the judgment. According to me, the directions issued in …
