Apex court to go into quota for Dalit Christians, Muslims

By IANS
Friday, January 21, 2011

NEW DELHI - Is denial of the Scheduled Caste reservations to Dalit Christians and Muslims - as available to Hindus, Sikh, and Buddhists - violative of Article 14 of the constitution? The Supreme Court Friday said it will hold a hearing on the question.

An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia said this involved an important question of the validity of the Supreme Court order issued under Article 341 of the constitution.

The bench, while appointing a senior counsel as amicus curiae to assist the court, impleaded the National Commission for Minorities and the National Commission for Scheduled Castes in the matter.

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