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Apex court wants VIP quota for Haj to be quashed
Updated On: 17 April, 2012 08:26 AM IST | | Agencies
The Supreme Court yesterday said the "goodwill" delegation that the government sends every year during Haj to Saudi Arabia has become some kind of VIP quota and it should be stopped since it is not in conformity with religious duty.
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An apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai said the government has proposed to reduce the strength of the “goodwill” delegation to one-plus-nine, but it should come down to one-plus-three-or-four, and eventually cease altogether.

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