{"id":21973,"date":"2012-07-24T12:21:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T06:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=21973"},"modified":"2012-07-24T12:21:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T06:51:51","slug":"sc-slashed-haj-seats-under-discretionary-dignitaries-quota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-slashed-haj-seats-under-discretionary-dignitaries-quota","title":{"rendered":"SC slashed Haj seats under discretionary, dignitaries quota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Supreme Court<\/strong><\/span> reduced the seats to 300 from the proposed 5,050 recommended under government&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>discretionary and dignitaries quota<\/strong> <\/span>for <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Haj<\/strong><\/span> 2012 pilgrims and hoped representation for them would be made on &#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>reasonable basis&#8221;.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0A bench of justices <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai<\/strong> <\/span>limited the number of seats to be allocated under dignitaries quota by the President to 100, the Vice President to 75, the Prime Minister to 75 and the External Affairs Minister to 50.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Government had said 2550 seats are reserved for recommendations by dignitaries and eminent persons for needy nominees who have not been successful in the &#8216;Haj Qurrah&#8217; 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