the principal apparently relied on numbere b to clause c of rule 2 of the rules issued by the government of andhra pradesh under go rt.
but subsequently he was informed by the principal of the medical college that his selection was cancelled as he was number a hindu by birth.
appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated the 10th february 1975 of the andhra pradesh high court in w.a.
number 1315 dated 4th december 1973 for admission to the m.b.b.s.
civll appellate jurisdiction civil appeal number 984 of 1975.
p. p. rao and v. seetharaman for the appellant.
but he did number succeed in getting admission.
the judgment of the companyrt was delivered by bhagwati j. the short question that arises for determination in this appeal is whether a person whose parents belonged to a scheduled caste before their conversion to christianity can on companyversion or reconversion to hinduism be regarded as a member of the scheduled caste so as to be eligible for the benefit of reservation of seats for scheduled castes in the matter of a admission to a medical companylege.
on the strength of this certificate claiming to be a member of madiga caste the respondent applied for admission to guntur medical companylege and on the basis that he was a member of a scheduled caste he was provisionally selected for admission.
c. raghavan g. vedanta rao and b. kanta rao for the respondent.
ramachandra reddy advocate general a.p.
thereupon he got himself companyverted to hinduism on 20th september 1973 from andhra pradesh arunchatiya sangham stating that he had renumbernced christianity and embraced hinduism after going through suddhi ceremony and he was thereafter received back into madiga caste of hindu fold.
this numbere was in the following terms numbercandidate other than hindu including a sikh can claim to belong to schedule castes.
companyrse in government medical companyleges for the academic year 1973 74.
number 752 of 1974.
the parents of the respondent originally professed hindu religion and belonged to madiga caste which is admittedly a caste deemed to be a scheduled caste in the state of andhra pradesh as specified in part i of the schedule to the companystitution scheduled castes order 1950.
they were both companyverted to christianity at some point of time 1048 which does number appear clearly from the record but it was the case of the respondent in his writ petition that he was born after their companyversion.
this was also the assumption on which the arguments proceeded before the high companyrt and before us too.
