Raj Kumar Makkad (Adv P & H High Court Chandigarh) 17 April 2012

Supreme court wants vip quota for haj to go

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday said that the VIP quota in Haj pilgrimage should not go on perpetually.

An apex court bench headed by Justice Aftab Alam said that the government has proposed a Haj quota of one plus nine for VIPs, but it should come down to one plus three and eventually should be avoided.

Justice Alam said that Haj quota was started in 1967, as a goodwill gesture and could not be allowed to go on in perpetuity.

The court said this in the course of a hearing of petitions by Haj tour operators. The court is examining the VIP quota component of the Haj policy.

SOURCE: The Times of India

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But why a secular state like India should provide subsidy for Haj or for any religious rituals in the country or abroad in the first place?First all such religious trusts and mis-trusts are receiving donations from honest, not-so-honest individuals and all those donations are tax free. And people enrolling in those religious trusts mis-trust for attending religous rituals being provided subsidy at the cost of the tax payers. This is double whamy.Why?