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Allahabad High Court directive on Haj pilgrims

LUCKNOW: The Allahabad High Court has restrained the Centre and the State governments from providing funds or financial subsidies to Haj pilgrims and pilgrimages of any other community.

The court's Lucknow Bench, however, allowed them to make arrangements to ensure law and order and safety of the people going on pilgrimage.

Justices A K Yog and O N Khandelwal passed the order on a writ filed by B N Shukla of the Shiv Sena in 1995.

They granted six weeks' time to the Central and State governments to file counter-affidavits and six weeks after that for rejoinders. The petition said the Union and State governments should not pay any subsidy to Haj pilgrims out of the Central or State exchequers. - PTI

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