New Delhi, July 8 -- Tamil Nadu has approached the Supreme Court against the decision of the Madras High Court that a person who had converted to Islam was not entitled to Backward Class (BC) reservation.

The appeal was filed against a June 2026 judgement that struck down a 2024 state government Order (GO) that said a convert to Islam from Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes, Denotified Communities or Scheduled Castes may be treated as BC (Muslim) for availing reservation.

The GO had said that the person should be issued with a community certificate as belonging to one of the 7 notified sects for availing reservation upon conversion.

The High Court, in its judgement, had held that the GO was strictly against the judicial pronouncem...