By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: The Preferrred Court docket on Thursday struck down the ten.5 in step with cent reservation supplied to Vanniyars, a Maximum Backward Neighborhood (MBC) in Tamil Nadu, in govt jobs and admission to instructional establishments.
A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and B R Gavai upheld the Madras Top Court docket order which had quashed the reservation.
“We’re of the opinion that there’s no considerable foundation for classifying Vanniakula Kshatriyas into one team to be handled another way from the rest 115 communities inside the MBC teams and, subsequently, the 2021 Act is in violation of Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Charter. Due to this fact, we uphold the verdict of the top court docket,” the bench stated.
The Tamil Nadu Meeting had in February remaining yr handed the then ruling AIADMK-piloted invoice offering inner reservation of 10.5 in step with cent for Vanniyars, with the incumbent DMK govt issuing an order in July 2021 for its implementation.
It had break up the combination 20 in step with cent reservation for MBCs and denotified communities into 3 separate classes by way of regrouping castes and supplied a ten in step with cent plus sub-quota for Vanniyars, previously referred to as Vanniakula Kshatriyas.