The Supreme Court has held that religious conversion undertaken solely to access reservation benefits without genuine belief in the adopted religion undermines the fundamental social objectives of the reservation policy.
A bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and R Mahadevan on November 26 upheld a Madras High Court decision of January 24 denying a scheduled caste certificate to a woman who converted to Christianity but later claimed to be a Hindu to secure employment benefits.
It said that religious conversion for the sole purpose of availing benefits is seen as a "fraud on the Constitution" and contrary to the ethos of reservation policies.
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