On Monday, the High Court of Delhi sought response of the Centre & Delhi Govt seeking to direct the authorities not to use an alleged derogatory word for the members of Scheduled Caste & Scheduled Tribes communities while issuing their caste certificates. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel & Justice Jyoti Singh issued notices & asked the Central & Delhi Govts to file their replies to the plea.
As the lawyer for the authorities sought time to seek instructions & file replies, the court listed the matter for further hearing on Aug 31. The plea filed by Akhil Bhartiya Gihara Samaj Jagriti Parishad, through its president Sudhir Kumar Gihara, said the caste certificates issued by the government contained undignified & humiliating terms & they had approached the authorities to remove the alleged derogatory word but no efforts were made to redress the grievances.
The petition, filed through Lawyer Prag Chawla, said the community is known as Gihara' which is a recognised schedule caste & the authorities should not have any objection in issuing the caste certificate mentioning the caste as Gihara' instead of the alleged derogatory word. It said use of such word will humiliate the very existence of being a human & against the equality & respect enshrined under the Constitution.
The respondents, whose task is to look after the effective implementation of the provisions of the Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act & not to ignore thereby, violate its provisions by using derogatory expressions in the certificates issued to the members of such community, the plea alleged.
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