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Court
slams petitioner seeking change in constitution
Wednesday March 09, 2011 08:42:26 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The judiciary cannot command the legislature, said the Delhi High
Court Wednesday on a petition filed by an aspiring civil servant
who wants the central government to amend constitutional
provisions related to right to equality.
"We cannot command the legislature to amend the constitution. You
have made sweeping and general observations in the petition which
is nothing less than a running commentary," said the division
bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna,
asking the petitioner to withdraw the plea.
After identifying petitioner Praveen Kumar Singh in court, the
judges asked him various questions related to the French
Revolution but he had no answers.
"Before talking about the rights of the poor, you first visit
places like Balaghat (Madhya Pradesh), Kalahandi and Bolangir in
Orissa to know the first-hand account of their plight," said the
bench.
"Persons of under-privileged class are being ignored and virtually
insulted and humiliated in public places, in offices and other
social gatherings," said the petition.
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