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Supreme Court upholds Madras HC order quashing Tamil Nadu reservation notification for converts to Islam

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Supreme Court upholds Madras HC order quashing Tamil Nadu reservation notification for converts to Islam
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A Bench headed by Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra held that a member of a backward Hindu community does not automatically become a member of a notified backward Muslim community merely by going through the act of conversion to Islam. File
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A Bench headed by Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra held that a member of a backward Hindu community does not automatically become a member of a notified backward Muslim community merely by going through the act of conversion to Islam. File | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap

Supreme Court of India on Thursday (October 15, 2026) rejected a Tamil Nadu government appeal seeking confirmation of the State’s policy to provide reservation benefits to members of backward classes, most backward classes, de-notified communities and Scheduled Castes to Islam.

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