India, Feb. 1 -- The Bombay High Court on Friday held that an adopted child is entitled to take the caste of his or her adoptive parents and ordered revenue authorities to issue a Special Backward Class certificate to a boy adopted by a Pune-based couple.

The division bench of justices MS Karnik and SM Modak was hearing a petition filed by Gita Dattatray Achari, a resident of Pune. In 2014, Achari and her husband adopted an abandoned boy and the adoption was approved by the Pune District Court.

In 2017, they applied to the deputy collector in Pune to grant a Special Backward Classes (SBC) certificate to their child Om and include him in the caste of the Acharis. While the deputy collector granted the certificate, the sub-divisioner offi...