The Bench of Supreme Court, comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala, and Manoj Misra, raised doubts regarding the need for mandating the disclosure of disability status in nomination forms.
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NEW DELHI: Today (26 Feb), the Supreme Court rejected a petition requesting reserved seats in the Lok Sabha for individuals with disabilities.
Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud, along with Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, queried the rationale behind mandating the declaration of disability status in nomination forms, stating,
“Why should there be a disclosure that a person is disabled in the nomination form?”
The Court also observed that the matter was a policy decision and that the Court could not intervene.
“This is a pure policy matter”
-CJI
Hence, court dismissed the petition.
The petition was filed by one Jayant Raghav.
LOK SABHA (House of the People)
As per the provision of Article 79 of Indian Constitution, the House of the People, the Lok Sabha is the lower House of the parliament. Lok Sabha is composed of representatives of the people chosen by direct election on the basis of the adult suffrage. The maximum strength of the House envisaged by the Constitution is 552.
Lok Sabha, (House of the People) the lower chamber of India’s bicameral parliament. Under the constitution of 1950, its members are directly elected for a term of five years by territorial constituencies in the states. In the early 21st century the Lok Sabha had 543 elected members; 13 of these represented the union territories. Two additional members were appointed by the president to represent the Anglo-Indian community.
The president of India, who is elected for a five-year term by an electoral college consisting of all elected members of parliament and of the state legislatures, is more a constitutional sovereign than a chief executive. The real power resides in the prime minister, who heads the Council of Ministers—ministers who are members of the cabinet and other ministers of state and deputy ministers. The council is responsible to the Lok Sabha. The upper chamber of parliament is the Rajya Sabha (Council of States).
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