The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) has decided to seek a review of the verdict pronounced 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.
Talking over phone Sarna said that we have been seeking advice in this context from experts.
A full bench comprising justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, Jasbir Singh and Ajay Kumar Mittal had on a writ petition on May 30, 2009 delivered the verdict ruling that persons with shorn hair can&apost be described as Sikhs.
Observing that keeping hair unshorn is an essential component of the Sikh faith, the court had said,\"The Sikh rehat-maryada (religious sanctity)requires Sikhs to keep their hair unshorn and even an act of dishonouring hair is taken as a taboo.
An act of dyeing one&aposs hair is treated as an act of dishonouring hair\".
Maintaining that\"hair unshorn is a part of the religious consciousness of the Sikh faith\", the Court had said if the religious community wishes to enforce the aforesaid norm as a pre-condition for admission, there is nothing wrong in this.
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Friday, July 24, 2009
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