In a recent judgment, the Supreme Court of India ruled that religious conversion undertaken solely for gaining employment or availing of reservation benefits constitutes a fraud on the Constitution, and is against the principles of reservation policy. The bench, consisting of Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice R. Mahadevan, in their judgment, upheld the decision of the Madras High Court wherein it denied the Scheduled Caste certificate to a woman who claimed to be Hindu to avail of reservation benefits in employment after having converted to Christianity. The appellant, C. Selvarani, was born to a Hindu father belonging to the Valluvan caste and a Christian Mother. She was baptised after birth and continued to practise Christianity but claimed to be a Hindu to avail of reservation benefits while applying for a job based on her father’s caste.