Constitutional Status — Landmark Judgments

Landmark Judgments

Indra Sawhney v. Union of India

1992

This landmark judgment upheld the constitutional validity of reservations for Other Backward Classes and mandated the creation of a permanent body to identify backward classes.…

Ashoka Kumar Thakur v. Union of India

2008

This case upheld the constitutional validity of the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006, which provided 27% reservation for OBCs in central…

Jarnail Singh v. Lachhmi Narain Gupta

2018

This judgment allowed sub-categorization within Scheduled Castes for reservation purposes, which has implications for similar sub-categorization within OBCs. The case highlighted…