The Apex Court has rejected the review petitions which was filed to challenge the judgement by the top court which upheld the Constitutional validity of 103rd Constitutional Amendment which granted 10 percent reservation to Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) of the society.
A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachudand Justice Dinesh Maheshwari, Justice S Ravindra Bhat, Justice Bela M Trivedi and Justice JB Pardiwala on May 9 held that there was no error in its judgment of November 2022.
The Court ruled that after having seen the review petitions, there seems no apparent error on the face of the record. No case for review under Order XLVII Rule 1 of the Supreme Court Rules 2013. The review petitions are, therefore, dismissed.
The Court also rejected the application for an open court hearing of the review petitions.
On November 7,last year a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court had, upheld the Constitutional validity of EWS reservation.
The judgment was delivered by a bench comprising then Chief Justice of India (CJI) UU Lalit and Justices Dinesh Maheshwari, S Ravindra Bhat, Bela M Trivedi and JB Pardiwala.
The bench with the then CJI UU Lalit had given four separate judgements.The CJI UU Lalit and Justice Ravindra Bhat however dissentinfrom the majority opinion.
The dissenting judges had said that while reservation on economic basis is permissible, excluding SC/STs and Other Backward classes from EWS
cannot be permitted and amounts to discrimination against them.
Madhya Pradesh Congress leader, Dr. Jaya Thakur and Dravida Munnetra Kazahagam (DMK) party had filed review petitions against the judgment.