The bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Navin Sinha refused to admit the petition and asked senior advocate Arvind Datar, appearing for Upadhyaya, to approach the minority commission. "But their minority rights are being siphoned off illegally and arbitrarily to the majority population (of these states) because neither central nor the state governments have notified the Hindus as a 'minority'.... Therefore, Hindus are being deprived of their basic rights," the petition said. It urged the apex court to quash as "unconstitutional" Section 2(c) of the National Commission for Minority Act, issued through a government notification in October 1993, which notifies only Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis as "minority" communities. Upadhyaya also claimed that Muslims were the majority in Lakshadweep (96.2 per cent) and Jammu and Kashmir (68.3).

Source: The Telegraph November 10, 2017 21:11 UTC