Delhi HC Criticizes Denial of Caste Certificate to Boy Raised by Single Mother Cites “Children Should Not Suffer”

The Delhi High Court ruled that denying a caste certificate to a boy due to the absence of a formal divorce decree from his estranged father was unacceptable. Justice Sanjeev Narula emphasized that children of abandoned mothers should not be penalized, directing authorities to reconsider the boy’s application without paternal documentation.