Jammu, Jan. 26 -- In the backdrop of the turmoil prevailing in the country for over a month now, a PIL challenging the allocation of special funds for various minority welfare schemes by the central government was admitted for hearing in the Supreme Court Monday last.
One of the main arguments against the Centre allocating Rs 4,700 crores in the last Union Budget was that it discriminated against the majority community. That the Attorney General K K Venugopal submitted in the court that the PIL 'raised substantial questions of law' and questioned the basis on which the National Commission for Minority was established in 1992, it ought to be referred to a five-member constitutional bench. The court set up a three-judge bench which after hea...