The Ideally suited Court docket has dominated that handiest folks belonging to Hindu, Sikh, or Buddhist faiths are eligible to assert Scheduled Caste standing. The Court docket clarified that conversion to every other faith, corresponding to Christianity, leads to the instant and whole lack of Scheduled Caste standing.
Upholding an order of the Andhra Pradesh Prime Court docket, the Ideally suited Court docket held that after an individual converts to Christianity and actively professes and practices that religion, they may be able to not be thought to be a member of a Scheduled Caste.
A bench comprising Justices P. Okay. Mishra and Manmohan additional dominated {that a} Dalit particular person who converts to Christianity can not declare coverage below the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.The Court docket emphasized that this place is obviously established below the Charter (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950. In step with the Court docket, the restriction below Clause 3 of the 1950 Order is absolute, that someone who professes a faith rather than Hinduism, Sikhism, or Buddhism ceases to qualify as a member of a Scheduled Caste, regardless of their delivery.
Thus, a Dalit one that converts to Christianity can not declare violation of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act (SC/ST Act), a Bench of Justices PK Mishra and Manmohan held.”Nobody who professes a faith rather than Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist will likely be a member of Scheduled Caste. Conversion to every other faith leads to lack of Scheduled Caste standing,” the Court docket dominated.
The judgment used to be delivered on an enchantment filed through a pastor, one Chinthada Anand, towards a Might 2025 verdict of the Andhra Pradesh Prime Court docket.Anand alleged that he confronted caste discrimination and abuse from one Akkala Ramireddy and others. He filed a criticism towards them below the SC/ST Act and the police lodged a primary data file (FIR) in line with the similar.Ramireddy then approached the Prime Court docket to quash the case.
Justice N Harinath quashed the FIR at the flooring that Anand had misplaced his SC standing upon conversion to Christianity and, due to this fact, can not declare coverage below SC/ST Act.
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