Justice L. Victoria Gowri, Madras High Court, Madurai Bench  The Madras High Court held that the conferment of Scheduled Caste (SC) communal status to the one who is Christian is a fraud on the Constitution

Justice L. Victoria Gowri, Madras High Court, Madurai Bench  The Madras High Court held that the conferment of Scheduled Caste (SC) communal status to the one who is Christian is a fraud on the Constitution. The Madurai Bench allowed a Writ Petition filed by V. Iyyappan, DMK party member seeking to direct the concerned authorities to declare V. Amutha Rani, AIADMK member as disqualified from the post of the Chairman of the Theroor Town Panchayat, Agastheeswaram Taluk, Kanyakumari District. A Single Bench of Justice L. Victoria Gowri observed, “In the given circumstances, the conferment of scheduled caste communal status to the 4th respondent, who is a Christian by religion, is nothing but a fraud on the Constitution. In fine, the writ petitioner succeeds and there will be a concrete direction to the respondents 1 to 3 to declare the fourth respondent as disqualified from the post of Chairman of the Theroor Town Panchayat, Agasteeswaram Taluk, Kanyakumari district, who is elected in a post reserved for Scheduled Caste.”
The Bench was of the view that unravelling the complexities of conversion has become necessary for the purpose of solving the legal problem, which has stemmed up from the great harvest of faith in the district of Kanyakumari. Senior Advocate B. Saravanan appeared for the Petitioner while Additional Advocate General (AAG) P. Veera Kathiravan appeared for the Respondents.