Supreme Court: Can't tag minorities at district level, will counter verdict

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday reiterated that religious and linguistic minority status of a community is to be decided state wise saying that it is the law of the land since 1957 but ruled out a plea for declaring minority status district wise as it would be against its verdict. While hearing a plea seeking its direction to Centre to declare Hindus as minority community in J&K, Mizoram, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Lakshadweep, Manipur and Punjab, a bench of Justices U U Lalit and S Ravindra Bhat said that the apex court has consistently held that minority status is to be decided on state basis and said that the issue could be looked into if it was not being implemented or being violated. As one of the prayers of PIL petitioner was for direction to decide minority status on district wise basis, the court that 11-judges constitution bench of the apex court had ruled that minority status was to be decided state-wise and that prayer could not be allowed. Mathura-based petitioner Devkinandan Thakur alleged in his petition that Centre arbitrarily notified five communities- Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsee-- as minority at national level against the spirit of ruling in TMA Pai case.

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