High Court impleads National Commission for Scheduled Caste as respondent

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has impleaded the National Commission for Scheduled Castes as a respondent on a PIL seeking a direction to it to furnish details of the exact sum diverted to welfare of other departments from funds allocated by Centre.

When the PIL filed by M. Selvaraj, State General Secretary of the Scheduled Caste Morcha of the BJP, came up last week, the First Bench, comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice MM Sundresh, impleaded the commission as respondent and issued notice through the Additional Solicitor General, directing it to file a counter affidavit within three weeks.

The bench then posted the matter for further hearing to June 16.

Earlier, the court had issued notice to the Secretary, Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Department and posted the matter for further hearing to March 15.