A 2024 Tamil Nadu government order that allowed individuals from seven sects to be part of the category after converting was unconstitutional, the bench said.

The high court held that the state’s assumption that a convert could be issued a certificate showing membership of one of those communities was “legally and conceptually…

Categorising certain sects as Backward and the remaining as Forward is antithetical to Quranic injunctions. Islam seeks to establish an egalitarian society, says Madurai Bench of…