HC moved to dissolve ‘defunct’ National Commission for SCs

The Madurai Mavatta Devendra Kula Vellalar Uravinmurai Sangam, represented by its president C Selvakumar, on detailing the circumstances which led to the creation of the NCSC and providing it with vast powers under Article 338 of the Constitution, said that at present, the body had become defunct as it had failed to pay heed to the real grievances of the Scheduled Castes (SCs) whenever they are put under humiliation at the hands of the caste Hindu people and by the State machinery.

Listing out a string of cases which included the attack on the SC community in Keela Urannanur village, the Melavalavu massacre wherein the accused who were sentenced to life were offered premature release, the wall collapse in Coimbatore district and so on, the petitioner submitted that the NCSC had not bothered to summon any officials, regardless of the powers vested with it.

The petitioner also pointed out that the NCSC involving itself in the issue of the Murasoli newspaper on the basis of a complaint, given by Srinivasan of the BJP and not belonging to the SC community, that the land where the newspaper’s office is functioning is panchami land, is a clear indication that the organisation has involved in the said issue with a political motive.

Further mentioning how the commission had failed to redeem so many panchami lands under the custody of caste Hindu people, the petitioner, pointing to the acts of the NCSC not being in accordance with the Constitution, pleaded that it is hence liable to be dissolved.

The very objective of establishing the NCSC is thereby totally defeated by its inertness and its failure to monitor the implementation of the constitutional safeguards provided for the people from the Schedule Castes, the petitioner said.