The Economic Times

Hindu to non-Hindu conversion cannot transfer social backwardness: SC upholds Madras HC order on reservation

The Supreme Court has dismissed the Tamil Nadu government's plea challenging a Madras High Court order on reservation for converts to Islam. The top court upheld the ruling that a person converting to Islam cannot claim reservation under the Backward Class (Muslim) category solely on the basis of conversion, stating that social backwardness cannot be transferred from the Hindu social order to a non-Hindu social order.