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CJI Gavai backs exclusion of creamy layer in quota for SCs
Hindustan Times Gurugram
|November 17, 2025
Chief Justice of India (CJI) BR Gavai on Sunday affirmed that he is still for exclusion of creamy layer in reservations to Scheduled Castes.
CJI BR Gavai
‘Addressing a programme “India and the Living Indian Constitution at 75 Years”, Gavai opined that children of an IAS officer cannot be equated with the offsprings of a poor agricultural labourer when it comes to reservations.
“I also went further and took a view that the concept of creamy layer, as has been found in the judgment of Indra Sawhney (vs Union of India & Others). What is applicable to the Other Backward Classes, should also be made applicable to Scheduled Castes, though my judgment has been widely criticised on that issue,” Gavai said.
“But I still hold that judges are not supposed to normally justify their judgments, and I still have about a week to go (retirement),” CJI Gavai added.
This story is from the November 17, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Gurugram.
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