HIGH COURT ON SIKH RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS
This is good decision,I recommend that every body to read it and give their comments. Amarjit Singh Padda The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News HC: Courts can decide religious conflicts ‘Unshorn hair essential component of Sikhism’ Saurabh Malik Tribune News Service Chandigarh, May 30 A Full Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today held that courts could enter into “religious thicket” in case of a conflict. Comprising Justice JS Khehar, Justice Jasbir Singh and Justice Ajay Kumar Mittal, the Bench also concluded that “maintaining hair unshorn was an essential component of the Sikh religion”; and that admissions under the Sikh minority community quota could be restricted to candidates maintaining “Sikhi swarup” or keeping their hair unshorn. Asserted the Bench: “In the process of analysis we were persuaded to conclude that a court, in case of a conflict, even on an aspect relating to religion, can enter into the religious thicket to determine the do’s and dont’s of the r