Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 494 · Decided 8 August 2006
Atyant Pichhara Barg Chhatra Sangh and ANR. v. Jharkhand State Vaishy Federation and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 494 · [2006] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 319
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3430/2006
- Decided
- 8 August 2006
- Bench
- AR. LAKSHMANAN, LOKESHWAR SINGH PANTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14
Headnote
B Constitution of India-Article I 4-State Notifications providing separate reservations to Extremely Backward Classes and Backward Classes for appointments in Government Services and in professional educational C institutions-Revised Notification issued amalgamating the two Classes into one Class Court upheld the validity of the revised Notification-Correctness of-Held, on facts, the State did not make an empirical study before taking a policy decision of amalgamating the two classes-Hence, the amalgamation is arbitrary and violative of Article 14-Direction to State to set up a
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