High Court orders restoration of community certificate
The Hindu
It was cancelled after the woman married a Christian
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed the Ramanathapuram district authorities to restore at once the community certificate originally issued to a Hindu Pallan woman who was married to a Christian.
The court said the cancellation of the community certificate showed “...a degree of narrow-mindedness that the Constitution does not encourage”. Nothing might be presumed upon a member of a particular community respecting another community or another religion; indeed, that is the constitutional mandate and not otherwise, observed a Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice M. Duraiswamy.
The certificate was cancelled merely because the woman, a doctor, married a Christian, and their children were recognised as members of the community of her husband.