Caste Hindu candidate claims reservation through bogus community certificate, Madras High Court refuses to order release of terminal benefits

The Madras High Court has found that a Caste Hindu had joined the Chennai Port Trust (CPT) in 1982 in a post reserved for a Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidate, served the organisation for 32 years by prolonging the inquiry into his caste status and attained the age of superannuation in 2013 thereby depriving an unknown person, suffering social stigma, of the constitutional benevolence shown by the nation.

Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy dismissed a couple of writ petitions filed by A. Jegannathan and refused to interfere with the State Level Scrutiny Committee’s (SLSC) conclusion that the petitioner actually belonged to Urali Gounder community and not the Urali tribe. The judge refused to direct CPT to pay full pension or release other terminal benefits such as gratuity, leave salary and so on.