The Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court has ruled that there is no restriction on granting internal quota to Scheduled Tribes.
In 2005, a 5-judge bench of the Supreme Court ruled that internal reservation should not be given in the reservation for Scheduled Castes and Tribes. The case against this was heard in the Supreme Court in a session of 7 judges.
The lawyer appearing for the central government said that internal reservation takes the purpose of reservation to the next level and provides equal opportunity to the communities facing oppression.
Following this, the Supreme Court overturned the judgment given by the 5-judge bench and ruled that the state governments can grant internal reservation to Scheduled Castes and Tribes.
Therefore, the Supreme Court has said that the Tamil Nadu government’s law regarding internal reservation for Arundhathiya will go. Only Justice Bela Trivedi gave a dissenting judgment in a 7-judge bench. The judges also said that internal reservation did not violate Article 14 of the Constitution.
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