CHENNAI, Oct. 30 -- The Tamil Nadu government will file a review petition against the Supreme Court verdict upholding the Madras high court judgment quashing the 2024 government order on reservations for converted Muslims, minister CTR Nirmal Kumar said on Thursday.

The development comes after the Supreme Court on October 15 upheld Madras high court's decision that barred the state government from allowing a Hindu backward who converted to Islam to retain his backward tag by getting a community certificate of any one of the seven notified Muslim backward communities in the state.

"Recently, the 2024 GO which has been published regarding the converted Muslims, was quashed by the court. We are going for a review petition," the minister sa...