Of late, the question of law, as accentuated by the Hon'ble the Supreme Court in Jaishree (1) that whether there should be reservation exceeding 50%, as contemplated in Indra Sawhney (2) case, splatters again a fierce debate on reservation
With several states breaching the 50 percent quota in government jobs, the apex court has issued a notice to them and Union Territories asking if this could be allowed as the limit was laid down by a bench in 1992.
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday has stayed the listing of final reserved seats in the Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Elections, which are to be held soon.
There is criticism about the state approving a bill giving 75 percent reservation to Haryanvis in the private sector in certain jobs as it is unconstitutional and will be a death knell for industry in a competitive world.
The Delhi Government on Sunday has informed that Delhi High Court that it has accepted the proposal of De-escalation committee and reduced the reservation of Covid-19 intensive care unit (ICU) beds from 80% to 60% in 33 private hospitals.
The Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court on Friday made the above direction while allowing a student of the Maratha caste to avail EWS reservation benefits with an undertaking not to claim any other reservation, either vertical or horizontal, except EWS category.
The applicants, who are women belonging to the Other Backward Classe and Scheduled Caste categories, complained that the state had not correctly applied the rule of reservation, and denied such OBC and SC women candidates the benefit of migration, adjustment in the general category vacancies.
New Delhi (ILNS): The Telangana High Court has clarified that there will be no early hearing on the petition filed for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) election.
Lucknow (ILNS): A petition has landed before the Allahabad High Court, claiming that relaxations in age allowed by earlier orders should allow him to appear for the Police-PAC Recruitment-2018.
A constitution bench of Justice Arun Mishra, Justice Indra Banerjee, Justice Vineet Saran, Justice M. R. Shah & Justice Aniruddha Bose has held that the MCI regulation allowing in-service reservation is unconstitutional. That power belongs to the state.