Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 546 · Decided 8 December 1999
Ajit Singh and ORS. v. State of Punjab and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 546 · [1999] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 195
- Case number
- REVIEW PETITION (CIVIL) No. 1504/1999
- Decided
- 8 December 1999
- Bench
- A.S. ANAND, S.B. MAJMUDAR, G.B. PATTANAIK, S.P. KURDUKAR, M. JAGANNADHA RAO (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
Constitution of India, I950 : Article I6(4)-Public employment-Power of State to make provision C for reservation for backward class of citizens-Held, Article I 6(4) is only an enabling provision. Ajit Singh II v. State of Punjab, [1997) 7 SCC 209, reiterated. Indira Sawhney v. Union of India, D v. State of Mysore, (1963) Suppl. 1SCR439; C.A. Rajendran v. Union of India, (1968) 1 SCR ·721; P& T Scheduled Caste/Tribe Employees Welfare Association (Regd.) v. Union of India, (1998) 4 SCC 147 and State Bank of India v. Scheduled Caste/Tribe Employees Welfare Association, 1996
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