The Supreme Court on April 4, 2024, confirmed the validity of the ‘Mochi’ caste certificate of Lok Sabha member Navneet Kaur Rana.
A Bench headed by Justice J.K. Maheshwari set aside a Bombay High Court verdict of June 2021.
The High Court had cancelled the caste certificate on the ground that it was obtained using fabricated documents. It had imposed a fine of ₹2 lakh on the parliamentarian, who had won as an independent candidate backed by the Nationalist Congress Party from the reserved constituency of Amravati in Maharashtra in 2019. The High Court had concluded that she belonged to the ‘Sikh-Chamar’ caste.
