Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 68 · Decided 7 February 2002
Subrata Acharjee and ORS. v. Union of India and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 68 · [2002] 1 S.C.R. 888
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 2/1993
- Decided
- 7 February 2002
- Bench
- S.P. BHARUCHA, S.S.M. QUADRI, U.C. BANERJEE, S.N. VARIAVA, SHIVARAJ V. PATIL (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 82, 170(3), 332
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950: C Article 332(3B)-Constitutiional Validity of-Reservation for Scheduled Tribes in legislative assembly of Tripura on the basis of existing number of members belonging to Scheduled Tribes in the Assembly-Provision transient in nature-Reservation challenged being Held, not violative of any of the constitutional mandate-Temporary measures D shall have to be taken for social goal and for the benefit of the country as deemed expedient- Proportionality though mainly dependent upon the basis of population, cannot always be done with arithmetical
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