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A Supreme Court bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Aniruddha Bose today issued notice in a plea challenging the allegedly “arbitrary” appointment of persons belonging only to Muslim community to head the Karnataka Minority Commission while ignoring other minorities such as Christian, Sikhs, Jain and Bhudhist.

The plea is a challenge to the order of Karnataka High Court dated 18th January 2021 which dismissed the plea on the ground that there is no law or statutory rule which mandates the Minority Commission to appoint persons from Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, Jain and Buddhists as the Chairperson to the Karnataka Minorities Development Corporation Limited by rotation

The plea was filed by a person called Anil Antony. The plea also seeks equal participation and representation of other minority community persons for the appointment of chairman of Karnataka state minority commission.

GS Mani Advocate is appearing for the petitioner submitted that the order of the Karnataka High Court is not reasoned. The court on hearing him issued notice in the matter.

Case title: Anil Antony Vs State of Karnataka