Backwardness can’t justify 50% cap breach: SC

The Supreme Court has said that social, educational and economic backwardness or inadequate representation of a community in public services cannot be a ground to grant it reservation in breach of the 50% ceiling fixed by the court. The bench stayed the operation of the Maharashtra law to grant reservation to Marathas holding that the government failed to make a case.

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