Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 553 · Decided 13 December 1999
Indira Sawhney v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 553 · [1999] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 229
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 930/1990
- Decided
- 13 December 1999
- Bench
- M. JAGANNADHA RAO, D.P. WADHWA, M.B. SHAH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 16, 16(4)
Headnote
B Constitution of India Articles 14, 16( 1) & 16( 4)-Reservation-Backward Classes- 'Creamy C layer '-Identification and exclusion of from the purview of reservation­ Directions issued by Supreme Court in Indira Sawhney case-State of Kerala­ Failure to identify 'creamy layer '-State of 'creamy layer' in Backward Classess and inadequate representation of Backward Classes in services under the State-Validity of-Held; 'creamy D layer' in a caste is not economically and socially backward-Conferring the benefit of reservation without excluding creamy layer will amount to
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