Minority Status: SC seeks government s response on transfer plea of cases from High Courts
The SC sought a reply from the government on a plea seeking transfer of cases from several High Courts to it, challenging the Centre s notification to declare five communities as minorities.
| 10 Feb 2021 7:06 AM GMT
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought a reply from the government on a plea seeking transfer of cases from several High Courts to it, challenging the Centre s notification to declare five communities Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis as minorities.
The High Courts at Delhi, Meghalaya and Guwahati are already seized of the petitions challenging the constitutional validity of section 2(c) of the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992. In October 1993, the notification was issued under this Act, which declared the five communities as minorities across the country. The transfer plea filed by advocate Ashwini Upadhyay argued as a result of t