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SC Certificates of Anyone Other than Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs Will Be Cancelled: Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis
KONKAN DIVISION, MAHARASHTRA, JUL 17 – Maharashtra plans strict actions to recover fraudulent SC benefits and nullify elections if needed, following a Supreme Court ruling limiting SC reservation to Hindus, Buddhists, and Sikhs.
- Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said certificates of individuals who converted to non-eligible religions will be cancelled, making Maharashtra the first major state to enforce SC eligibility retrospectively.
- This followed a Supreme Court verdict last year that held SC reservations apply only to Dalits professing Hinduism, Buddhism or Sikhism, excluding converts to Christianity or Islam.
- To enforce the ruling, authorities will verify SC certificates via spot visits and complaints, and individuals who won elections using fraudulent certificates will have their elections declared null and void.
- In response, Fadnavis said complaints of coercion or inducement will lead to investigations and action against the concerned organisations.
- Soon, Devendra Fadnavis indicated the Maharashtra government will introduce a stricter anti-conversion law under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita framework.
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SC certificates of all other than Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs will be cancelled, declares Fadnavis
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis declared that any person belonging to a religion other than Hinduism, Buddhism, or Sikhism who has obtained a Scheduled Caste (SC) certificate fraudulently will have their certificate cancelled. He further warned that if such individuals have availed of reservation benefits like government jobs or won elections using these certificates, strict action will be taken, including declaring their elections …
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday said if a person belonging a religion other than Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism has obtained a Scheduled Caste certificate fraudulently, it will be cancelled.
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Mumbai, Jul 17 (PTI) Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday said if a person belonging a religion other than Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism has obtained a Scheduled Caste certificate fraudulently, it will be cancelled. Action will be taken against such a person if he or she has secured reservation benefits such as government jobs. […]
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