Mangalore, August 7: The Dakshina Kannada District Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes Organisations' Federation has decided to move the Supreme Court challenging the Karnataka High Court's recent ruling that the Mogera caste should henceforth be treated as a Scheduled Caste in the entire state.
It can be recalled here that Uttara Kannada District Mogera Society had moved the Court seeking to inclusion of the community in the list of Scheduled Castes after the Social Welfare department refused to issue a caste certificate to the effect. Following this the Court had directed the State Government to accord Scheduled Caste (SC) status to Mogera community spread across the State.
Addressing a meeting organised by the Federation to discuss on the issue at the Auditorium of Karnataka State Government Workers Union, here on Sunday, Narayan Shiroor, a Dalit leader, termed the High Court's ruling as “immature”.
“We will file an appeal in the Supreme Court challenging this unacceptable ruling” he said.
He said that there are over 35 castes, involved in fishing activity across the State and no caste apart from Mogera is listed as Scheduled Caste.
He also alleged that over 25000 “false” caste certificates have been issued to the members of Mogera community. “This will reduce the benefits required for SC and ST communities for their development” he said.
The Federation also demanded the State Government to issue a notification to Thasildars and Deputy Commissioners not to issue Scheduled Caste certificates for Mogera community.
It was also demanded to revoke the “false” caste certificates issued to the community.
Nirmal Kumar, President of Federation, Kaanthappa Alangar, General Secretary, C H Bhaskar, Rtd Dy Thasildar were present among others in the meeting.
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