Quota row: Supreme Court bats for the deprived among unequals

Justice Bhushan R Gavai, the lone Dalit judge in the seven-judge bench that permitted sub-categorisation of castes within the SC community, showed courage in tackling what has been a political hot potato and asked states to devise a framework to identify and eliminate creamy layer among SCs and STs from availing reservation benefits. He said the OBC creamy layer principle can’t be applied to SCs and STs.

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