Plea says SC’s 2025 split verdict is being cited by police to block burial of tribal Christians in their villages; court restrains forcible exhumation.
Bench says that the claims of allurement surfaced months later after FIR was filed, raising doubts about the basis for invoking Uttar Pradesh’s 2021 anti-conversion law.
Dominic Martin, the prime suspect in Sunday’s Kerala blast, appeared shaken when he was informed that it had killed a 12-year-old, police said, adding that he was otherwise calm.
Paramilitary troops have been guarding the Christian settlement in the eastern part of the country after the mob vandalised at least 5 churches and set scores of houses on fire.
Mob allegedly attacked pastor Kelom Kalyan Tet in South Delhi’s Fatehpur Beri on 25 February, claiming he was carrying out forced religious conversions. Complaint filed on 27 February.
The Christian community has alleged that attacks on its members have risen since the Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Bill was mooted in September.
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The Court holds that once a Dalit converts to Islam or Christianity, she is no longer subject to the caste‑system and therefore loses SC status. But on the same logic, the historical burden of caste‑oppression should not be shifted onto Muslims and Christians by shrinking their share of seats, even though they are not the source of that caste‑hierarchy.
If the goal is to correct caste‑based injustice, then reservations should either be drawn only from the Hindu portion of the electorate (so Hindu Dalits are compensated out of Hindu‑only seats), or SC status and benefits should be extended to converted Dalits who still face the same social disadvantage—otherwise the existing structure is arbitrary and disproportionately penalises religious minorities. Additionally, the popular assumption that the Constitution doesn’t have religion based reservation is bogus if this arbitrariness continues.
The Court holds that once a Dalit converts to Islam or Christianity, she is no longer subject to the caste‑system and therefore loses SC status. But on the same logic, the historical burden of caste‑oppression should not be shifted onto Muslims and Christians by shrinking their share of seats, even though they are not the source of that caste‑hierarchy.
If the goal is to correct caste‑based injustice, then reservations should either be drawn only from the Hindu portion of the electorate (so Hindu Dalits are compensated out of Hindu‑only seats), or SC status and benefits should be extended to converted Dalits who still face the same social disadvantage—otherwise the existing structure is arbitrary and disproportionately penalises religious minorities. Additionally, the popular assumption that the Constitution doesn’t have religion based reservation is bogus if this arbitrariness continues.