From Haj to phones, misuse was rampant

The Supreme Court has done a commendable job in slashing down the Union Government's ‘discretionary quota' for Haj pilgrims. By reducing the number of the Centre's quota seats to a mere 300 from a staggering limit of 5,050, the apex court has raised the hopes of the ordinary devotee, for whom the annual pilgrimage had come to be associated more with numerous visits to various Haj committee offices to wrangle a seat than with the ‘once in a life-time' religious duty that ought to be performed by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so.

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