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Sub-classification of SCs by states valid, rules top court
The New Indian Express
|August 02, 2024
A seven-judge Supreme Court bench in a landmark ruling on Thursday empowered states to sub-classify groups within the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/STs) to uplift the more socially and economically backward among them for reservation benefits.
The majority 6:1 verdict set aside a 2004 judgment by a five-judge bench in the E V Chinnaiah case, which had held that sub-classification was not permissible because SC/STS form homogenous classes.
But the 6:1 ruling said the SCs are heterogeneous. However, sub-classification can be done only on the basis of quantifiable and demonstrable data of backwardness and representation in government jobs and not on whims or political expediency, the bench said.
This story is from the August 02, 2024 edition of The New Indian Express.
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