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A review petition has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the judgment delivered on August 1, 2024, by a seven-judge bench which permitted the sub-classification of Scheduled Castes for providing separate quotas for more backward groups within the SC categories.The petition, filed by lawyer Jaishri Patil, contends that the Supreme Court's interpretation in the Indra Sawhney. A review petition …

The Bihar government has approached the Supreme Court challenging the Patna high court decision striking down the law enhancing caste-based reservation to 65% in jobs and admissions and argued that the caste survey carried out by the state adequately satisfies the parameters required to breach the 50% ceiling on reservation set by the top court in the 1992 Indra Sawhney …

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 …

"If there is no 50% limit, what is the concept of Article 14 then? On Friday, Rohatgi commenced his arguments by informing the Bench that he would delineate various reasons that would warrant for a relook of the 9-Judge Bench judgement in Indra Sawhney, including the fact that it was only meant to cover Article 16 and not Article 15. …

Maratha Quota Case : Indira Sawhney Decision Delivered After Much Discussion; No Need To Revisit, Datar Argues In Supreme Court

A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court started hearing on Monday the challenge against the constitutionality of Maharashtra Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Act, 2018, which provides for a quota to Marathas in jobs and education. In today's hearing, Datar commenced his submissions on the issue of whether the 50% limit as set by the 1992 Indra Sawhney judgment could …

The story so far: The Supreme Court, while considering the validity of the reservation for the Maratha community in Maharashtra on March 8, decided that it will hear all the States on the 50% limit on total reservation imposed by the court in the Indra Sawhney case. The five-member Constitution Bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan wants to decide whether …

As SC considers referring Indra Sawhney judgment to larger bench, a look back at implications of landmark verdict

The verdict in the case of the Indra Sawhney vs Union of India— also known as the Mandal verdict — capped reservations at 50 percent The Supreme Court on Monday said it would also hear arguments on the issue of whether the landmark 1992 judgement in the Indra Sawhney case should be re-looked at and referred to a larger bench. …

On 22nd April, a five-judge bench delivered a judgment authored by Justice Arun Mishra in Chebrolu Leela Prasad Rao & Ors. While citing the relevant paragraph from the Indra Sawhney decision, the bench highlighted in bold letters the following sentence: "For by giving them the benefit of reservation, other disadvantaged members of that backward class may be deprived of that …

The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that 100 per cent reservation of teachers post for the scheduled tribes in the schools located a predominantly tribal areas was not permissible and no reservation could exceed the limit of 50 per cent as fixed by the top court in Indra Sawhney case on November 16, 1992. “Providing for 100 percent reservation is …

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