Parmod KumarNew Delhi, June 23 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked Paschim Banga Khet Majoor Samity, an agricultural workers' organisation, challenging the linking of welfare benefits under the Public Distribution System (PDS) and Annapurna Yojana with classifications emerging from the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, to approach the Calcutta High Court.
Questioning the petitioner agricultural workers' organisation for approaching the Supreme Court invoking its jurisdiction under Article 32 of the Constitution, and sending it to the High Court, a Bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Joymalya Bagchi observed that the issues raised in the petition constituted an independent cause of action concerning the ...