States Can't Be Selective In Granting Quota To Backward Classes: Supreme Court
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SC, ST Sub-Classification Hearing: The Supreme Court bench said doing so will lead to a dangerous trend of appeasement.
The Supreme Court, examining whether states can sub-classify the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for the grant of a quota within a quota, said on Thursday that the state governments cannot be selective in granting reservation benefits to backward classes
The top court is hearing references to revisit a 2004 judgment of a five-judge Constitution bench in the case of EV Chinnaiah vs State of Andhra Pradesh, in which it was held that the SCs and STs are homogenous groups and, hence, states cannot further sub-classify them to grant a quota within a quota for the more deprived and weaker castes in these groups.
A seven-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said that while conferring reservation benefits on the most backward classes, the State cannot exclude others.
