Supreme Court of India

Ashoka Kumar Thakur v. Union of India and Ors

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Reported as [2007] 4 S.C.R. 493
Bench Dr. Arijit Pasa Y At and Lokeshwar Singh Pant A JJ.
Decided 29 March 2007

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Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006: Section 6-other backward c/asses-27% reservation in the educational institutions-To be enforced from May 2007-Held, the operation of the Act c so far as it relates to Section 6 thereof for the OBCs category only to be kept ,. on hold. The policy of27% reservation for the Other Backward Classes (in short the 'OBCs') contained in the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006 (in short the 'Act') is the subject matter of challenge ~ in the instant the writ petitions. The primary ground of challenge

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