The Supreme Court judgment in Maratha Quota cases reiterated the principle of 50% ceiling limit for reservations and rejected the plea to revisit the 9-judge bench judgment in Indira Sawhney case which had laid down this ceiling limit.Soon after the Supreme Court struck down the Maratha quota by saying that there were no exceptional circumstances to exceed the 50% ceiling …
The Supreme Court heard arguments with respect to reference to an 11-Judge Bench of the issue pertaining to whether the State had the power to exceed the 50% reservation cap, as dictated in the 9-Judge Bench in the case of Indira Sawhney. Rohatgi submitted that in the instant plea, there was yet again a breach of the 50% limit and …
