Caste certificate in mothers name

Your child can have caste certificate of his/her father and not of mother.

It is the general rule that the child takes up the caste of the father. However, it is the settled legal position that the child would belong to the mother's cast or community in circumstances where the child was brought up in the mother's community. In the facts posted, the child belongs to the mother's caste/community and hence entitled for the certificate accordingly.

Even when you were married, if you are living separately from your husband as a deserted woman and bringing up your son in a locality where SCs are brought up like slums etc., The Revenue inspection can represent the facts and Tehsildar may consider recommending for the issue of such caste certificate with a detailed note and the joint collector may permit for the issue of such certificate due to the rare circumstances.  My opinion is based on the Rohit Vemual (Hyderabad University -Suicide case) SC certificate when both of his parents are from OC, but he was brought up in SC house, where his mother was working.

A Supreme Court bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai in the case of Rameshbhai Dabhai Naika vs State of Gujarat & Ors on January 18, 2012 upheld the jurisprudence that a caste certificate can be issued to a child born out of intercaste marriage in which one of the spouses is a Scheduled Caste or Tribe.