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SC seeks Centre's response on separate polling booths for SCs/STs New Delhi, Oct. 4 (PTI): The Supreme Court today sought the Centre's response on a PIL seeking fresh delimitation of constituencies reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes on the basis of a recent census report as the earlier demarcation was based on the 1971 census report. A Bench comprising Chief Justice R C Lahoti and Justice G P Mathur, passed this direction on a writ petition filed by the Federation for Upliftment of Depressed Classes which also sought setting up of separate polling booths for SCs and STs to enable them to cast their votes in a free and fair manner. Basing the petition on the States of Maharashtra, Bihar, Jharkhand and Haryana, where elections would be held in the near future, the petitioner through S C Aggarwal contended that the demarcation of Assembly constituencies in these four States for SCs and STs was based on the 1971 census. The petitioner requested the court to direct withholding the election process in these States till the Delimitation Commission completed the fresh demarcation of the SC/ST constituencies there. It also requested the court to direct the authorities in the States to set up more polling booths in the reserved constituencies with additional police protection so as to enable the people from the weaker sections to cast their votes without fear. http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/002200410041920.htm |
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