New Delhi, Oct 18: The Supreme Court today frowned on the Centre’s practise of “politicising” the annual Haj pilgrimage by permitting official delegations to accompany the pilgrims, for which the government offers huge subsidy, saying “it’s a bad religious practice”.
“What kind of practise is this? May be it has political use. It is a bad religious practise. It is not really Haj,” a bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai said.
The apex court made the remarks while dealing with the Centre’s appeal challenging a Bombay High Court judgement which had directed the Ministry of External Affairs to allow certain private operators to operate the services of 800 pilgrims out of the 11,000 pilgrims earmarked under the VIP quota subsidised by the government.
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