Monday, March 5, 2018

Plea seeks community certificates for brahmins

TIMES NEWS NETWORK  04.03.2018

Chennai: The first bench of the Madras high court has recused from hearing a PIL seeking direction to the Tamil Nadu government to issue community certificates to people belonging to the brahmin community.

The first bench headed by Chief Justice Indira banerjee said it would refer the plea to an appropriate division bench.

According to advocate V Arunagiri, many of his friends belonging to the brahmin community had informed him that they were not provided with a community certificate as given to other communities by the state government.

To verify the facts, Arunagiri on August 11, 2017, filed an application with the public information officer (PIO) of the state revenue department.

In its reply, the department informed Arunagiri that as per the government notification, the brahmins were not classified as any community and hence the issue of issuing community certificate to them did not arise.

Arunagiri then filed the petition in the high court, claiming that the brahmins were also entitled to get a community certificate and that the decision of the government in this regard was completely discriminatory and illegal.

Pointing out that the governments in neighbouring states like Andhra Pradesh were providing certificates to all communities including brahmins, the petitioner wanted the court to direct the government to include brahmins on the list of communities in the state and consequently direct the authorities concerned to issue certificates to all members from the community.

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