India, July 8 -- The Tamil Nadu government has approached the Supreme Court challenging the Madras High Court's judgment that struck down a government order allowing persons from Backward Classes (BC), Most Backward Classes (MBC), Denotified Communities (DNC) and Scheduled Castes (SC), who converted to Islam, to continue availing reservation benefits by treating them as Backward Class Muslims (BCM).

The special leave petition, filed through advocate B Karunakaran, is presently under the Supreme Court Registry's defect scrutiny and is expected to be listed before the court after the defects are cured or a specific directive on listing before an appropriate bench is secured by the state.

The high court, in its June 25 judgment, had declar...