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Setback to Maratha community, SC strikes down Maharashtra law granting quota in admissions and government jobs Mirror Online / Updated: May 5, 2021, 11:19 IST Supreme Court. The apex court also made it clear in its judgment that people from the Maratha community cannot be declared as educationally and socially backward community to bring them within the reserved category. In a setback to the Maratha community, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Maratha reservation in jobs and A verdict was given by the five-judge constitution bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan. The bench was he...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed the Maharashtra law granting reservation in jobs and admissions to Maratha community. The top court said it did not find any exceptional circumstance to justify exceeding the 50 per cent cap set by Indra Sawhney judgment.

The M.G. Gaikwad commission report submitted in 2018 concluded that the community had lost its self-esteem, which could be remedied by giving them reservation under the Socially and Economically Backward Classes category.

URL copied Supreme Court strikes down Maratha reservation Maratha Reservation Case: The Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside the Bombay High Court order and stuck down the reservation to Marathas in government jobs and admissions in Maharashtra. The verdict was pronounced by a five-judge constitution bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan. The court held that there were no exceptional circumstances justifying the grant of reservation to Marathas in excess of 50% ceiling limit as a Socially and Economically Backward Class. "Neither the Gaikwad Commission nor the High Court have made o...

Maratha Quota Case: SC Declares Reservation Over 50% as Unconstitutional The judgment by the constitution bench in the Maratha reservation matter is likely to clear many cobwebs. Supreme Court. Photo: PTI Law9 hours ago New Delhi: A five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday has held that reservations in excess of the 50% ceiling limit are unconstitutional. The bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan, L. Nageswara Rao, S. Abdul Nazeer, Hemant Gupta and S. Ravindra Bhat struck down the Maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) Act...