HC dimisses petition for MBC status to all Maravar sub-sects

A petition seeking to Most Backward Class status (Denotified) to all sub-sects of the Maravar community in Madurai, Dindigul and Theni districts was dismissed by the Madras High court bench after the petitioner opted to withdraw it.
Justice S Manikumar and C T Selvam asked petitioner A V Marimuthu if he had carried out any study of the reasons, including social, for shifting of community members to various places, to which he replied in the negative.
The judges then dismissed the petition after Marimuthu opted to withdraw it.
Marimuthu contended that even as Maravars in Tirunelveli, Tuticorin, Virudhunagar, Ramanathapuram, Sivaganga, Tanjavur, Tiruvarur Pudukottai and Nagapattinam were given MBC status (denotified), those in Madurai, Dindigul and Theni districts were denied the same.

While Piramalai Kallars, orginally from Madurai, Ramnad and Thanjavur districts, had migrated to other parts of the state and had been given denotified status, irrespective of their original place of dwelling, the Marvars were discriminated, he alleged.
He also submitted that while "Appa Naadu" and "Kondaiyankottai" Maravars (two sub sects) community in Madurai were accorded denotified status before bifurcation of the district, the other five sub sects of Maravar community, were not given the same.