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SC seeks guidelines on conferring Bharat Ratna

By Our Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI Aug. 8. The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to inform within four weeks whether it was following the prescribed guidelines for selection of awardees for conferring Bharat Ratna.

A three-Judge Bench, comprising the Chief Justice, V.N. Khare, Justice S.B. Sinha and Justice Arun Kumar, gave the direction on a petition from Rakesh Srivastava `Nyayik' seeking conferment of Bharat Ratna award on leading freedom-fighters, Madan Mohan Malaviya and Sir Syed Ahmed.The Bench requested the Attorney-General, Soli Sorabjee, to find out and inform the court whether the guidelines laid down by the apex court in the `Balaji case' on conferring Bharat Ratna on eminent personalities was being followed by the Government or not.

Mr. Sorabjee submitted that the high-power committee on conferment of the award was broad-based to include people from many walks of life and that it was not being run by bureaucrats alone.

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