Supreme Court of India

M. R. Mini (minor) Represented by Her Guardian & Father M. P. Rajappan v. State of Kerala and Anr.

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Reported as [1980] 2 S.C.R. 829
Bench V. R. Krishna Iyer and R. S. Pathak JJ.
Decided 28 January 1980

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the university-wise alloca­ tion of seats is valid the misfortune of the petitioner is damnum sine injuria, if we may use that expression in this context.

Judgment, page 2

From the headnote

University-wise allocation of seats for M. . .S. course in Kerala, constitu- tional validity of. Dismissing the Writ Petition, the Court HELD : The University-wise allocation of seats is valid. Under the existing scheme, the c1'assification for purposes of quota is univer­ sity-wise, not territory-wise. Belonging to backward Calicut District is not the same as being an alumnus of the Calicut University. May be, the State could hav'e classified candidaites University-wise, backward region-wise or otherwise, separately or in any constitutionally permissible combination. Mystic maybes are beyond

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 mentioned

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