K.M. Joseph, J.

1. Implement Applications are not seriously opposed. In such circumstances, the applications will stand allowed.

2. The issues, which are raised in this Public Interest Litigation are essentially centered around Dehradun District and it concerns with the rights of members of Dalit Community. Principally projected before us is the complaint that Dalits are not being allowed free entry in the Temples in the Jaunsar-Bawar Region in Chakrata Tehsil in Dehradun District. It is stated in the writ petition, inter alia that on 20.05.2016 in the Silgur Devta Temple in Punah Pokhri in Dehradun District, the petitioner along with one sitting M.P. of B.J.P. party, namely Tarun Vijay were attacked by a mob being agitated by the fact that they had along with others entered the inner sanctorum of the Temple when there is no entry or limited entry of lower castes in Temples of the said region. There is also reference to the Caste System in India and to the fact that a person's social status is obligated to which caste they were born into. It is contended that Caste System is highly prevalent in modern India in forms like manual scavenging, landless farm workers and peasants