Supreme Court of India

Union of India & Ors. v. Rafique Shaikh Bhikan & Anr.

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Reported as [2012] 5 S.C.R. 715
Bench Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai JJ.
Decided 8 May 2012

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2 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We are of the view that Hajj subsidy is something that is best done away with.

Judgment, page 20

From the headnote

Hajj Policy: Registration of Private Tour Operators (PTOs) for ferrying c Hajj Pilgrims - Eligibility conditions - Reasonableness of restrictions imposed for registration as PTO - Held: Object.of registering PTOs is not to distribute the Hajj seats to PTOs for making business profits but to ensure that the pilgrim may be able to perform his religious duty without undergoing any 0 difficulty, harassment or suffering - Restriction would not be unreasonable merely because in a given case it operates harshly - Therefore, no objection can be taken to high standards and stringent conditions being

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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