‘No clear data available to provide internal quota’

There was no quantifiable data available to justify 10.5% internal reservation for Vanniyakula Kshatriyas and the President alone was empowered to identify socially and educationally backward classes

There was no quantifiable data available to justify 10.5% internal reservation for Vanniyakula Kshatriyas and the President alone was empowered to identify socially and educationally backward classes to include them in the list for claiming reservation benefits, senior counsel for petitioners who are opposing the reservation argued before the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court.

A batch of cases pertaining to internal reservation for Vanniyars was taken up by a Division Bench of Justices M. Duraiswamy and K. Murali Shankar on Monday.