NEW DELHI: "Who does not know who is a Hindu or not," said the Supreme Court on Tuesday, refusing to entertain a plea seeking Hindus to be considered minorities in eight states of the country where they do not form majority of the population.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices B R Gavai and Surya Kant queried the petitioner advocate Ashwini Upadhyay, "What is your problem?"

Upadhyay asked for guidelines to be framed on which communities can be considered minorities, and for a 1993 notification specifying five national minorities (later updated to six) to be struck down.

The Chief Justice said - what kind of guidelines? "Who does not know who is a Hindu, Parsi or Muslim... how can there be guidelines. I do not think we will entertain this," said the Chief Justice.

The court cited that in Lakshadweep, Muslims follow Hindu law.