Supreme Court · 2005 INSC 51 · Decided 28 January 2005
Sobha Hymavathi Devi v. Setti Gangadhara Swamy and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2005 INSC 51 · [2005] 1 S.C.R. 848
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4413/2003
- Decided
- 28 January 2005
- Bench
- R.C. LAHOTI, G.P. MATHUR, P.K. BALASUBRAMANYAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 332
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950 -Article 332 - Constituency reserved for C Scheduled Tribes-Election of appellant set aside by High Court on the ground that she belonged to a forward caste-Appellant was born of a forward caste father and Scheduled Tribe mother-Claim of appellant that her parents were to caste of her mother and further that she was brought up as a member of Scheduled Tribe not substantiated-Claim of acquired membership in community of husband, D who belonged to Scheduled Tribe, also not acceptable, since reservation would benefit only those who belonged to a Scheduled
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