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NEW DELHI: A plea has been filed within the Supreme Court difficult the centre’s resolution to nominate a three-member fee, headed by former Chief Justice of India Ok G Balakrishnan which has been tasked to contemplate the potential of granting Scheduled Caste (SC) standing to “new individuals who’ve traditionally belonged to the Scheduled Castes’’ however have transformed to religions apart from Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism.
Justice KG Balakrishna was appointed by the centre on October 7, 2022, through the pendency of a plea in SC looking for scheduled caste standing for Dalit Christian and Muslim converts. Currently, as per the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 solely Dalits of Hindus, Sikh and Buddhist religion might be categorised as SCs.
The pleas which might be at the moment pending earlier than SC argue that the exclusion of Christian and Muslim Dalits from the record of Scheduled Caste was discriminatory. Recently, the centre within the pleas had informed SC that the federal government had taken a call to not settle for Justice Mishra’s report. Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission’s 2007 report for Religious and Linguistic Minorities had really useful allowing Dalits who transformed to Islam and Christianity to avail of SC standing.
The plea difficult centre’s latest resolution has been filed by practising advocate, social activist and secretary of Pragat Padhividhar Sanghatna (PPS), a social and academic Trust who stated he was a Christian of Scheduled Caste origin, belonging to the Mahar neighborhood.
It has been argued within the plea Union authorities has through the years shaped a number of Commissions, courting again to the primary Backward Classes Commission (1955), on this topic which have already pronounced the necessity for in response to SC standing to Dalits who’ve transformed to Islam or Christianity.
“The apprehension of the petitioner is that if the present commission is allowed, the hearing on the main petition may be further delayed causing irreparable damage to the Christians of Scheduled caste origin, who are denied this SC privileges for the last 72 years. It is also affecting the fundamental rights of the affected community, giving speedy justice is mandatory as per Article 21,” the plea states.
NEW DELHI: A plea has been filed within the Supreme Court difficult the centre’s resolution to nominate a three-member fee, headed by former Chief Justice of India Ok G Balakrishnan which has been tasked to contemplate the potential of granting Scheduled Caste (SC) standing to “new individuals who’ve traditionally belonged to the Scheduled Castes’’ however have transformed to religions apart from Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism.
Justice KG Balakrishna was appointed by the centre on October 7, 2022, through the pendency of a plea in SC looking for scheduled caste standing for Dalit Christian and Muslim converts. Currently, as per the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 solely Dalits of Hindus, Sikh and Buddhist religion might be categorised as SCs.
The pleas which might be at the moment pending earlier than SC argue that the exclusion of Christian and Muslim Dalits from the record of Scheduled Caste was discriminatory. Recently, the centre within the pleas had informed SC that the federal government had taken a call to not settle for Justice Mishra’s report. Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission’s 2007 report for Religious and Linguistic Minorities had really useful allowing Dalits who transformed to Islam and Christianity to avail of SC standing.
The plea difficult centre’s latest resolution has been filed by practising advocate, social activist and secretary of Pragat Padhividhar Sanghatna (PPS), a social and academic Trust who stated he was a Christian of Scheduled Caste origin, belonging to the Mahar neighborhood.
It has been argued within the plea Union authorities has through the years shaped a number of Commissions, courting again to the primary Backward Classes Commission (1955), on this topic which have already pronounced the necessity for in response to SC standing to Dalits who’ve transformed to Islam or Christianity.
“The apprehension of the petitioner is that if the present commission is allowed, the hearing on the main petition may be further delayed causing irreparable damage to the Christians of Scheduled caste origin, who are denied this SC privileges for the last 72 years. It is also affecting the fundamental rights of the affected community, giving speedy justice is mandatory as per Article 21,” the plea states.