Dalit bodies, allied Left organisations back reservation for converted Dalits
2 years, 1 month ago

Dalit bodies, allied Left organisations back reservation for converted Dalits

The Hindu  

The Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch, an umbrella organisation representing various bodies fighting for Dalit rights across the country, along with the All India Dalit Rights Movement and a few other Left-associated workers’ unions on Saturday unanimously resolved to support the demand for extending reservation rights to Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims. However, in the resolution passed at the Convention, the Left bodies specified that extending reservation to Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims should not come at the cost of reducing the share of total reservations already available to Scheduled Caste communities. Welcoming this move and calling it a “healthy political development”, Ali Anwar of the All India Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz, said more Opposition parties in the country need to speak up for Dalit Muslims and Dalit Christians because in the absence of this, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is finding the space to “infiltrate our movements and sabotage our cause”. George, President of National Council for Dalit Christians, one of the organisations fighting for SC status for Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims in the Supreme Court, said, “We do not support this separate reservation.

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Karnataka Internal Reservation Policy for Scheduled Castes: Implementation Challenges and Political Impact
4 weeks ago

Karnataka Internal Reservation Policy for Scheduled Castes: Implementation Challenges and Political Impact

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 25, 2024 19:35 IST - 8 MINS READ In a decision that is bound to have far-reaching social implications in Karnataka, the State Cabinet, in late October, approved implementation of internal reservation within the Scheduled Caste quota in the State, which currently stands at 17 per cent. Any decision to implement internal reservation in Karnataka, especially in …

Karnataka CMO: No Proposal on Muslim Reservation
1 month, 1 week ago

Karnataka CMO: No Proposal on Muslim Reservation

Deccan Chronicle  

The Karnataka Chief Minister's Office on Tuesday responded to media reports claiming that the state government was considering a proposal for Muslim reservation in jobs, calling the reports "another new lie. However, it has been clarified that there is no proposal before the government in this regard," the CMO added.Meanwhile, on Saturday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah criticised the Congress …

Battle for Dalit votes heats up in poll-bound Haryana
3 months ago

Battle for Dalit votes heats up in poll-bound Haryana

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI There’s a certain concern that’s crept into the otherwise confident camp of the Congress in Haryana. Along with the dominant Jat community that comprises approximately 27% of the electorate, Muslims who make up 7% and Sikhs who are about 5%, the Congress’s internal surveys told the party brass that it could have got up to 70 seats in …

Panel for SC status to all Dalit converts racing against time as deadline nears
4 months ago

Panel for SC status to all Dalit converts racing against time as deadline nears

The Hindu  

The Commission of Inquiry set up by the Centre to look into the possibility of granting Scheduled Caste status to Dalit Christians and Muslims is racing against time to submit its report as its two-year term is set to expire in October 2024. “Sometimes, the field visits may also get delayed or rescheduled,” one of the sources added, explaining why …

Cong will scrap Dalit reservation to appease Muslims, says Nadda
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Cong will scrap Dalit reservation to appease Muslims, says Nadda

Hindustan Times  

Bharatiya Janata Party president Jagat Prakash Nadda on Thursday said if voted to power INDIA bloc parties, including Congress, will snatch reservation from Dalits and give it to the Muslims. BJP president Jagat Prakash Nadda with party’s Amritsar candidate Taranjit Singh Sandhu during a poll campaign in Amritsar on Thursday. Addressed a poll event in support of Hans Raj Hans …

Internal quota: CM Siddaramaiah accuses Centre of misleading Dalits
11 months ago

Internal quota: CM Siddaramaiah accuses Centre of misleading Dalits

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: Referring to the Centre’s move to form a high-level committee under the chairmanship of the Cabinet Secretary to review the internal reservation for Scheduled Castes, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah termed it as a ploy to mislead the Dalit community. The Justice Usha Mehra Commission, also constituted by the Centre for the same purpose, had concluded that sub-categorisation of SCs and …

Dalits urged not to give up their fight against discrimination
1 year ago

Dalits urged not to give up their fight against discrimination

The Hindu  

The disturbing issue of normalisation of caste slurs came to the fore at a round table organised by Dalit Sthree Sakthi where victims of caste discrimination poured out their woes in the presence of officials. The victims included educated people who held decent posts in corporate companies and women cheated by men from other castes, rape victims and victims of …

Muslim-Sikh-Dalit Union is Waging Anti-Hinduism Campaign, Not Protecting Dalit in US - News18
1 year, 1 month ago

Muslim-Sikh-Dalit Union is Waging Anti-Hinduism Campaign, Not Protecting Dalit in US - News18

News 18  

Sociologist and professor Salvatore Babones speaks exclusively with News18 on his new paper titled ‘The Weaponization of Caste in America’ in which he contends that Dalit is not a caste in India, and the term does not meet the definitions of “caste” that have been used in or proposed for American legislation to ban caste-based discrimination. Nonetheless, the Muslim-Sikh-Dalit coalition …

If BJP comes to power...: Amit Shah's big promise ahead of Telangana elections
1 year, 1 month ago

If BJP comes to power...: Amit Shah's big promise ahead of Telangana elections

India Today  

The next chief minister of Telangana will be someone from the backward community if the Bhartiya Janata Party comes to power in the state, said Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday. Shah questioned Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and said, "BRS had promised that if their government comes to power, a Dalit would be made CM. "We have …

The present and future of Dalit politics
1 year, 1 month ago

The present and future of Dalit politics

The Hindu  

Dalit politics in India evolved with the rise of various independent Dalit political parties such as the Republican Party of India, the Bahujan Samaj Party, other political parties such as the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, the Puthiya Tamilagam in Tamil Nadu, and the Praja Rajyam Party in the Andhra Pradesh and adjoining States. Most of the independent Dalit political parties still …

U.P. Congress to start ‘Dalit Gaurav Samvad’ on BSP founder Kanshi Ram’s anniversary
1 year, 2 months ago

U.P. Congress to start ‘Dalit Gaurav Samvad’ on BSP founder Kanshi Ram’s anniversary

The Hindu  

The Uttar Pradesh Congress plans to start a roughly 45-day ‘Dalit Gaurav Samvad’ from October 9, the death anniversary of Bahujan Samaj Party founder Kanshi Ram, in an outreach effort towards Dalits. “We have planned various programmes under Dalit Gaurav Samvad. Through the events, we will discuss agendas related to Dalit issues in each parliamentary segment,” Anil Yadav, Uttar Pradesh …

Dalit groups in call to identify atrocity-prone areas of new Rajasthan districts
1 year, 2 months ago

Dalit groups in call to identify atrocity-prone areas of new Rajasthan districts

The Hindu  

Dalit groups in Rajasthan have released a manifesto for the upcoming Assembly election with a call to identify atrocity-prone areas in the 19 newly created districts of the State. Caste violence “Caste-based discrimination and violence are issues of social justice, which should get the highest priority in the manifestos of political parties seeking votes,” Mr. Singh, a former Inspector-General of …

Dalit summit wants equitable share in resources
1 year, 3 months ago

Dalit summit wants equitable share in resources

The Hindu  

The two-day National Dalit Summit held here on August 26 and 27 has demanded that the government enact a legislation and enforce it stringently to enable dalits have an equitable share in the appropriation and use of the rural and urban common property resources. Speakers at the meet have sought protection of dalits’ rights to a standard of living adequate …

Dalit Christians — exclusion by society, church, state
1 year, 4 months ago

Dalit Christians — exclusion by society, church, state

The Hindu  

Last year, the Union Government constituted a commission, headed by the former Chief Justice of India, K.G. Intersectional burdens The ‘Theory of Intersectionality’ shows the bigger picture of the Dalit Christian conundrum as it allows an understanding of caste with religion and a composite understanding of Dalit Christians as ‘Dalits’ and as a ‘religious minority group’. This description helps form …

Dalit rights bodies to gather for a National Dalit Agenda ahead of 2024 polls
1 year, 4 months ago

Dalit rights bodies to gather for a National Dalit Agenda ahead of 2024 polls

The Hindu  

More than 50 Dalit rights organisations and labour and farm workers’ unions are set to gather for a two-day National Summit in Hyderabad later this month to put out a National Dalit Agenda ahead of the 2024 general elections. Among issues that will be at the centre of discussion are rising atrocities against Dalits, land rights for Dalits, caste discrimination …

Convention of Dalit organisations and associations in Mangaluru on July 30
1 year, 4 months ago

Convention of Dalit organisations and associations in Mangaluru on July 30

The Hindu  

Nearly eight different Dalit organisations, 12 Dalit sub-caste organisations and SC/ST employees’ associations in KSRTC, Mangalore University and New Mangalore Port Authority from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi will take part in a convention of Dalits which will be held by Dakshina Kannada Sanghatanegala Samanvaya Samiti at the B.R. Mr. Devadas said the State government has still not come out with …

Quotas for Dalit Muslims, Christians: SC wonders if it can rely on RM panel report
1 year, 8 months ago

Quotas for Dalit Muslims, Christians: SC wonders if it can rely on RM panel report

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: What is the effect of the report of a Commission of Inquiry that has been rejected or not accepted by the government and whether the empirical data which formed the basis of the report can be looked at while determining a constitutional issue, the Supreme Court wondered on Wednesday while considering the question of quotas for Dalit Muslims …

Dalits, Muslims stage protests in Karnataka against reservation rejig plan
1 year, 8 months ago

Dalits, Muslims stage protests in Karnataka against reservation rejig plan

The Hindu  

Published : Mar 29, 2023 15:29 IST - 3 MINS READ Members of certain Dalit communities, known as “touchable” Dalits, and Muslim groups have been protesting in Karnataka over the past two days demonstrating their opposition to the radical rejig of the reservation matrix proposed by the Basavaraj Bommai-led BJP government after its Cabinet meeting on March 24. In the …

Suspect moves: The Hindu Editorial on changes to reservation policy in Karnataka
1 year, 8 months ago

Suspect moves: The Hindu Editorial on changes to reservation policy in Karnataka

The Hindu  

Statecraft involves management of competing demands for accommodation and inclusion, without unduly affecting the interests of any section of society. The Karnataka government’s decision to scrap the 4% quota for Muslims within the Other Backward Classes category and earmark an additional 2% each to the dominant Vokkaliga and Veerashaiva-Lingayat communities is a divisive gamble in the expectation of electoral dividends. …

AP: BJP opposes SC status for Dalit Christians, says real' Dalits will lose out
1 year, 8 months ago

AP: BJP opposes SC status for Dalit Christians, says real' Dalits will lose out

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: A delegation of leaders from state BJP called on Governor S. Abdul Nazeer at Raj Bhavan here on Monday and sought his intervention in the resolution passed by the AP Assembly to provide SC reservation to Dalit Christians. The BJP leaders led by state party president Somu Veerraju appealed to the governor to get the state government to annul …

Andhra Pradesh: BJYM opposes SC status to Dalit Christians
1 year, 8 months ago

Andhra Pradesh: BJYM opposes SC status to Dalit Christians

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha state vice-president Ravindra Reddy has criticised the state government for passing a resolution in the Assembly to provide Scheduled Castes status to Dalit Christians. Speaking to the media here on Saturday, the BJYM vice-president questioned the state government how it could pass a Bill for Centre’s approval when the issue was pending in the Supreme …

SC Status For Converted Dalits : Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To Expert Panel Formed By Centre
1 year, 11 months ago

SC Status For Converted Dalits : Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To Expert Panel Formed By Centre

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a Writ Petition that was filed challenging the Central Government’s decision taken in October 2022 to set up a panel to examine Schedule Caste status for dalits who converted to Christianity or Islam.It was in October 2022 that the Centre constituted the Commission to study the issue. The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a …

In affidavit in SC, Centre defends exclusion of Dalit Christians, Dalit Muslims from scheduled castes' list
2 years, 1 month ago

In affidavit in SC, Centre defends exclusion of Dalit Christians, Dalit Muslims from scheduled castes' list

Firstpost  

The affidavit was filed in response to a plea of NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation seeking an extension of reservation and other benefits to people from Dalit communities who converted to Islam and Christianity New Delhi: The Centre has defended the exclusion of Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims from the list of scheduled castes, saying historical data shows no …

Centre alludes to ‘foreign origins’ in its affidavit on Dalit Christians, Dalit Muslims
2 years, 1 month ago

Centre alludes to ‘foreign origins’ in its affidavit on Dalit Christians, Dalit Muslims

The Hindu  

The affidavit filed by the Union government before the Supreme Court Bench hearing the case for the inclusion of Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims on the list of Scheduled Castes contradicts itself at several junctures, leading to a lack of clarity on its arguments defending the current criteria for determining which communities can be classified as Scheduled Castes. Among the …

Panel formed on SC status for Dalit Christians, Dalit Muslims: Centre
2 years, 2 months ago

Panel formed on SC status for Dalit Christians, Dalit Muslims: Centre

The Hindu  

The Union government has filed a fresh affidavit before the Supreme Court, through the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, stating its current position on the inclusion of Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims in the Scheduled Castes list and on the petitions challenging the constitutionality of Para 3 of the Constitution Order, 1950, which allows only members of Hinduism, Sikhism …

Should Dalit Muslims and Dalit Christians be given SC status?
2 years, 2 months ago

Should Dalit Muslims and Dalit Christians be given SC status?

The Hindu  

Recently, the Union government formed a three-member Commission of Inquiry headed by former Chief Justice of India, Justice K.G. Professor Thorat, considering that besides caste discrimination, converts might also face other forms of discrimination because of internal hierarchies within the new religion, what kinds of discrimination should the Justice K.G. Yes, the ‘untouchables’ who converted to Buddhism and the ‘untouchables’ …

Panel to study SC status of Dalits post conversion
2 years, 2 months ago

Panel to study SC status of Dalits post conversion

The Hindu  

The Union government has now formed a three-member Commission of Inquiry headed by former Chief Justice of India, Justice K.G. The three-member commission will also comprise Professor Sushma Yadav, member, UGC, and retired IAS officer Ravinder Kumar Jain, and has been given a two-year deadline to submit a report on the issue — starting from the day Justice Balakrishnan takes …

Scheduled Caste Status For Converted Dalits : Centre Constitutes Commission To Examine The Issue
2 years, 2 months ago

Scheduled Caste Status For Converted Dalits : Centre Constitutes Commission To Examine The Issue

Live Law  

Through a notification dated 6th October 2022, the Centre has appointed a Commission headed by former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan to examine the matter of according Scheduled Caste status to new persons who claim to have historically belonged to the Scheduled Castes, but have converted to a religion other than those mentioned in the Presidential Orders under Article …

Explained | The criterion for SC status
2 years, 2 months ago

Explained | The criterion for SC status

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Supreme Court of India has sought the most recent position of the Union government on a batch of petitions challenging the Constitution Order of 1950, which allows only members of Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist religions to be recognised as SCs. On the other hand, the Union government in 2019 rejected the possibility of including Dalit …

Dalit Christians, Dalit Muslims can’t be compared to Buddhist converts, says Centre’s 2019 affidavit
2 years, 3 months ago

Dalit Christians, Dalit Muslims can’t be compared to Buddhist converts, says Centre’s 2019 affidavit

The Hindu  

With the Supreme Court awaiting the Union government’s present position on including Dalit Christians as members of Scheduled Castes, the Narendra Modi government’s latest standing on this aspect has been to reject any such proposition, according to an affidavit filed by the government in November 2019, which also said Dalits who converted to Buddhism could not be compared to those …

Reservations to Dalit Christians and Muslims was a ‘Communal Award’ given by Sonia Gandhi for defeating Vajpayee: Why BJP has to resist it
2 years, 3 months ago

Reservations to Dalit Christians and Muslims was a ‘Communal Award’ given by Sonia Gandhi for defeating Vajpayee: Why BJP has to resist it

Op India  

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of India issued a notice to the Union Government, asking for their response in a plea that said those Dalit Hindus who had converted to Christianity or Islam should be given the same reservation benefits as extended to the Scheduled Caste category. In the C.M Arumugam v S. Rajgopal and others, the court held that …

Ranganath Mishra Commission: When BJP said that converts to Islam or Christianity cannot get SC status benefits
2 years, 3 months ago

Ranganath Mishra Commission: When BJP said that converts to Islam or Christianity cannot get SC status benefits

Op India  

On August 30, the Supreme Court of India sought a response from the central government to a plea that the Dalits who have converted to Islam and Christianity from Hinduism should be eligible for the same quota benefits that are reserved for Scheduled Castes. It is noteworthy that then-Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had said in Rajya Sabha last …

Dalit Christians hold Black Day seeking SC status
2 years, 4 months ago

Dalit Christians hold Black Day seeking SC status

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Dalit Christians in Andhra Pradesh observed Wednesday as Black Day as part of their nationwide protest demanding re-recognition of Dalit Christians as members of the scheduled castes in India. Vijayawada Catholic Diocese Most Reverend Monsignor Father Muvvala Prasad recalled that on August 10, 1950, the then union government issued a President's Order cancelling the SC status of Dalit Christians …

Dalit Women, Pasmanda in Yogi Cabinet: This is Sabka Saath, Sabka Vishwas in Action
2 years, 8 months ago

Dalit Women, Pasmanda in Yogi Cabinet: This is Sabka Saath, Sabka Vishwas in Action

News 18  

What happened at Ekana stadium in Lucknow on Friday will resonate for decades to come. For the first time in the history of Indian politics, three Dalit women took oath as cabinet minister and ministers of state. Professor Kaushal Panwar of the Indira Gandhi National Open University, who is among the few Dalit woman professors in the country, said, “I …

What Dalit Leader Yashpal Arya’s Homecoming Means for Congress Ahead of Uttarakhand Polls
3 years, 2 months ago

What Dalit Leader Yashpal Arya’s Homecoming Means for Congress Ahead of Uttarakhand Polls

News 18  

After a prominent Dalit leader and transport minister in the Dhami government, Yashpal Arya, returned to the Congress fold ahead of the Uttarakhand election in 2022, the Congress is hoping to cash in on his Bajpur seat in Udham Singh Nagar district that has a sizeable Dalit Sikh population. After how the Channi gamble turned out in Punjab, the Congress …

‘No Dearth of Assignments for Amarinder’: Harish Rawat Says Congress Wants Dalit CM in Uttarakhand
3 years, 2 months ago

‘No Dearth of Assignments for Amarinder’: Harish Rawat Says Congress Wants Dalit CM in Uttarakhand

News 18  

Days after Captain Amarinder Singh was replaced with Charanjit Singh Channi as the chief minister, Congress’s Punjab in charge Harish Rawat in an interview with News18 said Singh is a senior leader and could be accommodated within the party, provided he “takes initiative”. In an apparent reference to Uttar Pradesh, the veteran Congress leader said not only Dalits but Brahmins …

Reservation in NEET Is A Political Move By The BJP, Not Social Justice
3 years, 4 months ago

Reservation in NEET Is A Political Move By The BJP, Not Social Justice

The Quint  

Third, though the BJP claims that it has politicised and mobilised the subaltern and powerless Dalit-Bahujans sections, a cursory view would reveal that such politicisation has not brought any substantive change in their socio-economic conditions and educational status. A majority of these groups still survive in the most precarious conditions and remain excluded from the basic human entitlements of health, …

The ground reality of Dalits who convert to Christianity to ‘get respect’
3 years, 6 months ago

The ground reality of Dalits who convert to Christianity to ‘get respect’

Op India  

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao in a media interaction claimed that Dalits convert to Christianity to get the respect that they were denied. “It is really caste atrocity going on silently in the Catholic Church” M. Mary John, the president of the Dalit Christian Liberation Movement and the National Council of Dalit Christians said, “This almost exclusion of Dalit …

Dalits Who Convert to Islam or Christianity Won't Get Quota, Says Law Minister in Rajya Sabha
3 years, 10 months ago

Dalits Who Convert to Islam or Christianity Won't Get Quota, Says Law Minister in Rajya Sabha

News 18  

New Delhi: Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in response to a question in Rajya Sabha said that Dalit converting to Islam or Christianity cannot claim reservation benefits and it will also deprive the person the eligibility to contest parliamentary or Assembly election from constituencies reserved for Scheduled Castes. Prasad added that Para 3 of the Constitution Order outlines that no …

Dalit converting to Islam or Christianity won't get quota: Law Minister
3 years, 10 months ago

Dalit converting to Islam or Christianity won't get quota: Law Minister

India TV News  

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in response to a question in Rajya Sabha said that Dalit converting to Islam or Christianity cannot claim reservation benefits and it will also deprive the person the eligibility to contest parliamentary or Assembly election from constituencies reserved for Scheduled Castes. Prasad added that Para 3 of the Constitution Order outlines that no person who …

How the Savarna construction of reservation vs merit binary has stalled progress of Dalits across sectors
4 years ago

How the Savarna construction of reservation vs merit binary has stalled progress of Dalits across sectors

Firstpost  

The Constitution of India provides equal rights to all its citizens, but the oppressed sections of society, despite constitutional safeguards and rights, have minimal representation in political and governmental bodies. In a casteist society like India, political parties are also majorly dominated by upper caste elites, which helps them in preserving status quo. However, in order to promote and position …

Why 'Dalit Christians' shouldn't receive benefits meant for SC communities
4 years ago

Why 'Dalit Christians' shouldn't receive benefits meant for SC communities

Op India  

Over the last few years, there have been several calls for the inclusion of ‘Dalit Christians’ in the reservation system under the categories of ‘SC/ST’ and ‘OBC’. Though these demands for reservations aren’t endorsed by most churches due to their claims of Christian society not having a caste system, several activists from the Christian community have raised demands for the …

India's Dalit Muslims, marginalised historically and in the present day, find scant mention in mainstream discourse
4 years, 2 months ago

India's Dalit Muslims, marginalised historically and in the present day, find scant mention in mainstream discourse

Firstpost  

Violence against Dalits elicits a set of responses: debates on casteism and discrimination; support for #DalitLivesMatter; politicians capitalising on the situation. Taking assistance from Santos’s conception, we also need to dismantle the monolithic imagining of Muslims in India, because this blanket understanding veils the marginalities of Dalit Muslims. Likewise, the National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities or Rangnath Mishra …

Politics in Dalit quota
4 years, 2 months ago

Politics in Dalit quota

The Hindu  

O n August 27, a five-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Arun Mishra ruled that State governments had the right to sub-classify Scheduled Caste categories in order to ensure equitable distribution of socio-economic benefits under reservation. The commission has recommended internal reservation within the 15 per cent Dalit quota in Karnataka. According to informal assessments by Madiga …

70-year wait for Dalit Christians, Muslims on SC verdict over caste status
4 years, 4 months ago

70-year wait for Dalit Christians, Muslims on SC verdict over caste status

The Hindu  

Five days before India celebrates her 73rd anniversary of Independence, Dalit Christians and Muslims will mark a grimmer anniversary of the date when the Presidential Order was issued on August 10, 1950. I agree that Christianity does not preach caste, but it is Christians who still practice caste and continue to oppress and discriminate those from Dalit communities.” Born into …

High Court Issues Order Banning Use of 'Dalit' Term for Scheduled Castes and Tribes
6 years, 11 months ago

High Court Issues Order Banning Use of 'Dalit' Term for Scheduled Castes and Tribes

Live Law  

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has issued a directive prohibiting the use of the term 'Dalit' for members belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The court's decision is based on a petition filed by social activist Dr. Mohanlal Mahor, who had argued that the use of the word 'Dalit' is discriminatory and should be prohibited. The court has …

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