Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 1175 · Decided 7 November 2022
Janhit Abhiyan v. Union of India
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 1175 · [2022] 14 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 55/2019
- Decided
- 7 November 2022
- Bench
- UDAY UMESH LALIT, DINESH MAHESHWARI, S. RAVINDRA BHAT, BELA M. TRIVEDI, J.B. PARDIWALA (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 15, 16, 15(4), 15(5), 16(4), 14
Headnote
Constitution (One Hundred and Third Amendment) Act, 2019 - Challenge to - Vide said amendment, Arts. 15 and 16 of the Constitution were amended by adding two new clauses viz., clause (6) to Art.15 with Explanation and clause (6) to the State was empowered, inter alia, to provide for a maximum of ten per cent reservation for "the economically weaker sections" (EWS) of citizens other than "the Scheduled Castes", "the Scheduled Tribes" and the non-creamy layer of "the Other Backward
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