The Hyderabad High Court on Wednesday made it clear that it is a person's upbringing that must be taken into account while determining his/her caste if they are born to inter-caste parents. It also said that officials from the revenue department are the competent authorities to ascertain the community where the child has been brought up. Once they certify the child's caste after verification process, it is not open for officials of universities and the social welfare department to question it while according seats in educational institutions, a bench of Justice V Ramasubramanian and Justice Anis said. The bench said this in its judgment in a case filed by Sabbella Siri Manjoosha Reddy of Visakhapatnam district, whose scheduled caste (SC) certificate was questioned by the authorities of the NTR health university and the social welfare department. They refused to accord her an MBBS seat under the SC quota on the ground that her father is a Reddy. Though her mother is from sche...