Supreme Court Upholds Reservation Only In Home State
- A Supreme Court bench has held that scheduled castes or tribes can avail benefit of reservation in government jobs only in their home states.
- SC’s rationale is that a particular community is notified as SC/ST in relation to a state. They do not necessarily carry the same status in another state or UT.So the concept would become invalid if migrants from other states are automatically within its ambit. The Court has thus upheld the “son of the soil” principle.
- For the purpose of Articles 341 and 342 in the Constitution, the reservation benefits would be within the geographical territories of a ....
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