JUDGMENT :

SHAJI P. CHALY, J.

This is a Public Interest Litigation filed by a registered Organisation registered under the Indian Trusts Act, 1882 at the office of the District Registrar, Ernakulam. According to the petitioner, the aims and objects of the petitioner Organisation include fight against discrimination on the basis of religion, caste, sex etc. and for maintaining equality among the citizens and peace and tranquility in all fields of life and to uphold the principles of secularism.

2. The grievance highlighted by the petitioner is in regard to the minority status continued to the Muslim and Christian communities in the State of Kerala, since according to the petitioner, the members of such communities have grown up to such a level in the fields of socioeconomic and education, and therefore, their status is to be redetermined. It is also submitted that the report of the Committee appointed by the State Government, namely Paloli Muhammed kutty Committee, is a falsely created one suppressing the facts and figures so as to give undue advantage to the Muslim Communities and as such, it cannot be acted upon.

3. It was the predominant submission that the original inhabitants of In