Supreme Court of India
Dr. Sandeep S/o Sadashivrao Kansurkar and Others v. Union of India and Others
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What the Court ordered
We are of the opinion that they would stand well on comparative basis.
Judgment, page 33
From the headnote
c . Education!EducationaL Institutions - Admission - Super-specialty courses - Reservation based on residence or institutional preference - Challenge to, on ground that it is absolutely against thf/I national interest and plays foul of equality clause engrafted in the Constitution - Plea of writ petitioners that reservations made by the States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana ushers in a state of inequality by putting the residents of the said States in one class solely on the foundation of domicile and others in a different category altogether without any rationale and, therefore, the entire
Authorities it was built on
- 1958 Shri Ram Krishna Dalmia v. Shri Justice S. R. Tendolkar & Others
- 1999 Dr. Preeti Srivastava and Anr. Etc. Etc. v. The State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.
- 2003 Saurabh Chaudri and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.
- 1974 State of Uttar Pradesh v. Pradip Tandon & Ors.
- 2013 Nikhil Himthani v. State of Uttarakhand & Ors.
- 1955 D. P. Joshi v. The State of Madhya Bharat and Another
- 2011 Abdul Ghafoor & Anr. v. State of Bihar
Where later benches applied it
- 2022 Neil Aurelio Nunes & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors
- 2020 Chebrolu Leela Prasad Rao & Ors. v. State of A.P. & Ors.
Of those, 2 referred to
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