{
  "id": 14628089,
  "title": "Setback For TN Govt As SC Upholds Madras HC Verdict, Says 'Conversion Alone Does Not Confer Backward Class Muslim Status For Reservation'",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/setback-for-tn-govt-as-sc-upholds-madras-hc-verdict-says-conversion",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-15T06:02:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/setback-for-tn-govt-as-sc-upholds-madras-hc-verdict-says-conversion-alone-does-not-confer-backward-class-muslim-status-for-reservation"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "New Delhi: The Supreme Court upheld a Madras High Court judgment striking down a Tamil Nadu government order that allowed people converting to Islam from Backward Classes (BC), Most Backward Classes (MBC), Denotified Communities and Scheduled Castes to obtain community certificates as Backward Class Muslims. A Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Shree Chandrashekhar ruled that conversion…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}