'Overstepped jurisdiction': Why SC reversed Bombay HC order & upheld MP Navneet Rana’s caste certificate

New Delhi: The Bombay High Court overstepped its jurisdiction by reappreciating the evidence already considered by a caste scrutiny committee, the Supreme Court said as it reversed the lower courts 2017 order cancelling the Mochi certificate given to Amravati MP Navneet Kaur Rana...

The court was hearing Ranas appeal against the 2017 high court order, which in turn came after several complaints questioning the validity of the Mochi caste certificate given to her..

Specifically, the complaints said that the documents that Rana submitted had been forged and even questioned if Ranas caste had been mentioned in the Presidential Order of Maharashtra, based on which such certificates are given...

However, Ranas opponents claimed that it was constitutionally impossible to grant her the caste certificate because Ravidasia Mochi or Sikh Chamar the caste that the Amravati MP belongs to was not mentioned in the Presidential Order of Maharashtra..

In November 2017, the panel accepted Ranas claim after she submitted two documents a bona fide certificate from Mumbais Guru Nanak Khalsa College of Arts, Science and Commerce issued in her grandfathers name which mentions her caste as Sikh Chamar, and the second, an indenture document from 1932 that corroborated Ranas claim that her forefathers had migrated to Maharashtra from Punjab...

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