Plea In SC Seeks Identification of Minorities At 'State Level'; Challenges S. 2(f) Of National Commission for Minority Education Institution Act [Read Petition]

BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay has moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction upon the Central Government to lay down guidelines for identification of minorities "at State level", in spirit of its verdict in the TMA Pai case. In the case of TMA Pai, the Top Court had held that the unit for determining status of linguistic and religious minorities would be State. It...