India, July 25 -- A child cannot be recognised solely by the caste of their father in all circumstances, the Bombay High Court has said, while striking down orders passed by education authorities denying admission to the daughter of a Pune-based widow through the 25% quota for underprivileged children under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act on the grounds that the woman could not produce her late husband's caste certificate.

A single judge bench of justice NJ Jamadar on Wednesday ordered the authorities to grant admission to Arohee Jadhav, 6, at the Aditya English Medium School in Pune through the RTE quota by July 31 without insisting on her late father's caste certificate.

The bench said that the Pune ed...