The Recent news caught my eye on a news channel where a converted
Christian Still want to get benefit of Notorious Kota System of Indian
Constitution on Basis of Creed and Caste.
This example shows how badly our kota system needs review and
Overhauling.
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The Gujarat High Court has rejected a plea filed by a converted
Christian seeking access to benefits extended to him earlier as a
Scheduled Caste Hindu.
While a state government panel held that he had converted, the
petitioner denied doing so and challenged the cancellation of a
Scheduled Castes certificate issued to him.
The bench of Chief Justice SJ Mukhopadhaya and Justice JB Pardiwala
refused relief to petitioner Nimesh Zaveri and said he and his family
members could not enjoy the benefits after conversion.
Zaveri had obtained a Scheduled Castes certificate from the state
authorities. After a complaint that he had converted to Christianity, a
scrutiny committee issued show cause notice to him seeking his reply.
In his reply, he denied converting to Christianity and claimed he
continued to be a Scheduled Caste Hindu.
The committee, after considering all the aspects, directed the
cancellation of the caste certificate given to Zaveri and his family. It
held that he and his family had converted.
A single judge bench upheld the order of the committee against which
Zaveri preferred an appeal before the division bench.
The division bench noted, in an order made available Monday, that the
committee relied on an affidavit of Zaveri before an executive
magistrate July 5, 1990.
"The affidavit stated that he had converted to Christianity by baptism
on July 14, 1987 and he had declared that he and his children will not
be known as 'Hindu Vankar' (caste) but as 'Indian Christian'."
The scrutiny committee found that Priest Samuelbhai Ukabhai Parmar had
issued a certificate registering the petitioner in the Methodist Church
June 18, 2002 on the basis of baptism conducted July 14, 1987.
In the marriage invitation card of Zaveri's sons, they were described as
Christians.
The judges said these findings and the refusal of grant of relief by the
single judge did not call for their interference and dismissed the
appeal.
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