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Jarnail Singh & Others v. Lachhmi Narain Gupta & Others

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Reported as [2018] 10 S.C.R. 663
Bench Dipak Misra, Kurian Joseph, R. F. Nariman, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Indu Malhotra JJ.
Decided 26 September 2018

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9 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We are of the view that it was not necessary for Nagaraj (supra) to refer to Chinnaiah (supra) at all.

Judgment, page 33

From the headnote

Constitution of India – Arts.16(4- ), 16(4- ), 335, 341 and 342 – Interpretation of – Reservation in promotion – Ju dgment in M. Nagaraj case – Correctness of – Referred to five judge Constitution Bench – Held: Judgment in M. Nagaraj case does not need to be referred to seven–Judge Bench – However, the conc lusion in M. Nagaraj case that the State has to collect quantifiable data showing backwardness of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, being contrary to the nine-Judge Bench in Indra Sawhney (1) case, is held to be invalid to this extent. Constitution of India – Reservation –

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Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 7 referred to · 1 not applicable

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