MADURAI: Can the ‘Holy Cross’ and other religious symbols and practices are displayed by Dalit quoted to cancel the SC / Public Certificate? No, said the High Court of Madras, calling it a narrow mind bureaucracy of the constitution never predicted.
Just because members of the Dalit community are married to a Christian and their children have been recognized as members of her husband’s community, the SC certificate was issued for her irrevocable, the first bench was held by the Chairman of Sanjib Banerjee and Justice M Duraiswamy.
The court made a temporary observation, allowing the petition submitted by P Muneeswari Regency Ramanathapuram in 2016, trying to reduced the 2013 Order authorized by the district collector to cancel the community certificate.
A doctor with a profession, he was born to Hindu Pallan (a caste) of parents and certified so that they fit the law.
He then married a Christian and raised his children as members of the Christian community.
Citing this, the certificate is revoked.
When he challenged the decision in court, officials said they visited the clinic and found a ‘cross’ hanging on the wall.
On this basis, officials suspected that he had become a Christian and, thus, was disqualified from maintaining the PALLAN Hindu community certificate.
Slamming arguments, the first bench said: “There are no suggestions in Affidavit that he has left his faith or that he has embraced Christianity this is the same as possible that he is, as part of the family, can accompany the husband and children.
Sunday Matina, but facts That someone goes to church does not mean that the person has been abandoned by the original faith for the person was born.
” Judges further said: “The acting and behavior of the authorities describes the level of narrow mind that the constitution does not push.” It will do well for members of the supervision committee to approach this problem with a broader mind than it is clear in this case, they said.
Observing that the actions taken by the authorities seemed arbitrary and based on suspect and alleged without the support of material facts, the judge canceled the sequence passed by the district collector and directed by the government to restore the certificate initially published in supporting Muneeswari immediately.
The judges said that in a counter statement submitted by the authorities, some hypocritical reasons were offered and that they were not acceptable.