Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 480 · Decided 18 July 2013
Faculty Association of Aiims v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 480 · [2014] 14 S.C.R. 1634
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4500/2002
- Decided
- 18 July 2013
- Bench
- ALTAMAS KABIR, S.S. NIJJAR, RANJAN GOGOI, M.Y. EQBAL, VIKRAMAJIT SEN (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 15, 16, 335
Headnote
C Constitution of India - Arts. 15, 16 and 335.- Reservation - In speciality and super-speciality faculty posts in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences-Applicability­ Held: In view of the observations made by Nine Judge Bench in Indira reservation is not applicable D to speciality and super-speciality level - The very concept . ' of reservation implies mediocrity - All India Institute of Medical Sciences Act, 1956. The question for consideration in the present E appeals was whether policy of reservation was inapplicable to
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