The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) has decided to seek a review of the verdict handed down by the Punjab and Haryana High Court two months back on the definition of the Sikh.
DSGMC president Paramjit Singh Sarna today authorised Sikh scholar and High Court lawyer Dr Malkiat Singh Rahi to file a review petition in the Court in the context of the verdict.
A full bench comprising justices Jagdish Singh Khehar, Jasbir Singh and Ajay Kumar Mittal had on May 30, 2009 delivered the verdict on a writ petition wherein the constitutional validity of the definition of the Sikh as contained in the Sikh Gurdwara act, 1925 and its subsequent amendments.
Dr Rahi who was one of the interveners in this matter, already filed a review petition against the verdict in his individual capacity, but now he has been commissioned by the DSGMC too. His review plea is yet to be listed for hearing.
The bench verdict came after several prolonged hearings on the petition of Ms Gurleen Kaur of Gurdaspur and three others who had been denied admissions under the seats reserved for the Sikh candidates in MBBS course in Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee-controlled and Amritsar-based Sri Guru Ram Dass institute of Medical Education and Research on the ground that they were not found to be eligible to be Sikh as they plucked their eyebrows and trimmed beards which was against essential tenets for the religious Sikh.
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