Bengaluru, June 27 -- The Madras High Court has struck down a Tamil Nadu government order (GO) that allowed persons from backward classes, most backward classes, denotified communities, and scheduled castes, who converted to Islam, to be treated as Backward Class Muslims (BCM) and continue availing associated reservation benefits. In an order passed on Thursday, a bench of justices GR Swaminathan and PB Balaji held that the GO, which was notified by the then Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) government on March 9, 2024, was "unconstitutional." The bench said the state could not, through an executive order, override binding judicial precedents which have consistently held that a person who converts to Islam becomes "just a Muslim" and cannot c...