The Supreme Court, by a 3:2 majority, upheld the validity of the 103rd Amendment to the Constitution offering 10 per cent reservation in training and authorities jobs to the economically weaker sections (EWS).
While ruling in favor of reservation, Justice Dinesh Maheshwari, Justice Bela M Trivedi and Justice JB Pardiwala stated that the legislation referring to reservation for EWS doesn’t violate the essential construction of the Constitution. Meanwhile, Justice S Ravindra Bhat disagreed and Chief Justice of India UU Lalit concurred with him.
Here are the highest quotes from the decision:
- Justice Dinesh Maheshwari: “The EWS quota doesn’t violate the equality and fundamental construction of the Constitution. Apart from the present reservation, the reservation doesn’t violate the provisions of the Constitution.”
- Justice Maheshwari: The infrastructure can’t be violated by enabling the state to make provisions for training. The reservation for EWS doesn’t violate the essential restrict of fifty% as a result of the ceiling isn’t rigid.
- Justice Bela M Trivedi: “Socially and educationally backward lessons kind separate classes. They can’t be handled at par with the unreserved class. Benefits underneath EWS can’t be stated to be discriminatory.
- Justice S Ravindra Bhat: “Reservation is opposite to the essence of equal alternative. The 103rd Amendment practices prohibit types of discrimination.”
- Justice S Ravindra Bhat: “Reservation was designed as a robust device to allow equal entry. Introducing financial norms and excluding SC, ST, OBC, to say that that they had these pre-existing advantages is an injustice. ,
- Justice S Ravindra Bhat: “By excluding the SC/ST/OBC poor from the economically backward classes, the amendment constitutionally prohibits forms of discrimination.”
- Justice Pardiwala: “Reservation isn’t the tip, it’s a means. It shouldn’t be allowed to grow to be vested pursuits.”
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
