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Court Cases Related to Reservation in India

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Indian Judiciary has pronounced some Judgments upholding reservations and some judgments for fine tuning its implementations. Lot of judgments regarding reservations have been modified subsequently by Indian parliament through constitutional amendments. Some judgments of Indian judiciary has been flouted by state and central Governments. Given below are the major judgments given by Indian courts and its implementation status:

1990: Syndicate Bank SC & ST Employees Association (Through its General Secretary Sh K S Badalia) & Others Vrs. Union of India & Others {1990 SCR(3) 713; 1990 SCC Supl. 350}: The Apex Court of the country held that reservation is applicable and available in selection method of promotions of Group-A/Class-1 Officers up to highest (Scale VII :General Manager) level and the Govt of India have committed mistake in not giving reservation to SC & ST Officers w.e.f. 01st January, 1978, the date from which the policy of reservation in Promotions was introduced/ implemented in Public Sector Banks. This judgment was implemented half heatedly only in Syndicate Bank up to April 1993. This historic and landmark judgment couldn't be implemented in other banks/Departments due to the foolish, selfish and egoistic leadership of the SC & ST Employees Associations/ organizations of some banks like SBI, UCO Bank, Allahabad Bank, etc. because instead of getting this judgment implemented in their banks they, based on this judgment, filed Writ Petitions in Supreme Court and High Courts where they failed miserably. To get this judgment implemented in all Banks, PSUs and Govt. Departments it's winner Mr. KS Badalia has struggled hard but he couldn't get any support from any Association, Organization and Political leader. This judgment is still alive and need a concerted support and struggle from the entire reserved community of all level.

Relevant Cases

  1. See Arts 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 335 of the Constitution of India.
  2. State of Madras Vs. Smt. Champakam Dorairanjan AIR 1951 SC 226
  3. General Manager, S. Rly v. Rangachari AIR 1962 SC 36
  4. M R Balaji v. State of Mysore AIR 1963 SC 649
  5. T. Devadasan v Union AIR 1964 SC 179.
  6. C. A. Rajendran v. Union of India AIR 1965 SC 507.
  7. Chamaraja v Mysore AIR 1967 Mys 21
  8. Barium Chemicals Ltd. Vs Company Law Board AIR 1967 SC 295
  9. P. Rajendran Vs. State of Madras AIR 1968 SC 1012
  10. Triloki Nath Vs. State of Jammu and Kashmir AIR 1969 SC 1
  11. State of Punjab vs. Hira Lal 1970(3) SCC 567
  12. State of A.P. Vs U.S.V. Balram AIR 1972 SC 1375
  13. Kesavanand Bharti v St of Kerala AIR 1973 SC 1461
  14. State of Kerala Vs N. M. Thomas AIR 1976 SC 490 : (1976) 2 SCC 310
  15. Jayasree Vs. State of Kerala AIR 1976 SC 2381
  16. Minerva Mills Ltd Vs Union (1980) 3 SCC 625 : AIR 1980 SC 1789
  17. Ajay Hasia v Khalid Mujib AIR 1981 SC 487
  18. Akhil Bharatiya Soshit Karamchari Sangh Vs Union (1981) 1 SCC 246
  19. K. C. Vasant Kumar v. Karnataka AIR 1985 SC 1495
  20. Comptroller & Auditor-General of India, Gian Prakash Vs K. S. Jaggannathan (1986) 2 SCC 679
  21. Hindustan Zinc Ltd. Vs A. P. State Electricity Board (1991) 3SCC 299
  22. Indira Sawhney & Ors v. Union of India AIR 1993 SC 477 : 1992 Supp (3) SCC 217
  23. Unni Krishnan v. State of A.P. and Ors. (1993 (1) SCC 645)
  24. R K Sabharwal Vs St of Punjab AIR 1995 SC 1371 : (1995) 2 SCC 745
  25. Union of India Vs Varpal Singh AIR 1996 SC 448
  26. Ajitsingh Januja & Ors Vs State of Punjab AIR 1996 SC 1189
  27. Ashok Kumar Gupta: Vidyasagar Gupta Vs State of Uttar Pradesh. 1997 (5) SCC 201
  28. Jagdish Lal and others v. State of Haryana and Others (1997) 6 SCC 538
  29. Chander Pal & Ors Vs State of Haryana (1997) 10 SCC 474
  30. Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh Vs. Faculty Association 1998 AIR(SC) 1767 : 1998 (4) SCC 1
  31. Ajitsingh Januja & Ors Vs State of Punjab & Ors AIR 1999 SC 3471
  32. Indira Sawhney Vs. Union of India. AIR 2000 SC 498
  33. M G Badappanvar Vs St of Karnataka 2001(2) SCC 666 : AIR 2001 SC 260
  34. T.M.A. Pai Foundation v. State of Karnataka (2002) 8 SCC 481
  35. NTR University of Health Science Vijaywada v. G Babu Rajendra Prasad (2003) 5 SCC 350
  36. Islamic Academy of Education & Anr. v. State of Karnataka & Ors. (2003) 6 SCC 697
  37. Saurabh Chaudri & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. (2003) 11 SCC 146
  38. P.A. Inamdar v. State of Maharashtra 2005 AIR(SC) 3226
  39. I.R. Coelho (Dead) by LRS. Vs. State of T.N. 2007 (2) SCC 1 : 2007 AIR(SC) 861
  40. M. Nagraj & Ors v. Union of India and Ors. AIR 2007 SC 71
  41. Ashok Kumara Thakur Vs Union of India. 2008
  42. K. Manorama Vs Union of India.(2010) 10 SCC 323.
  43. Suraj Bhan Meena Vs. State of Rajasthan (2011) 1 SCC 467.

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