Supreme Court of India

M. V Chandrakanth v. Sangapppa & Ors

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Reported as [2022] 17 S.C.R. 222
Bench Indira Banerjee and J. K. Maheshwari JJ.
Decided 29 July 2022

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What the Court ordered

In the result, I hold that every person who belo ngs to KuruhinaSetty community whether a Lingayat or not belongs to Backward community for the purpose of the Governm ent Order, and can claim the benefit of special provisions subjec t to the income test prescribed in the Government Orde r and, M. V. CHANDRAKANTH v.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Karnataka Scheduled Castes, Schedule Tribes and Oth er Backward Classes (Reservation of Appointments, etc.) Act, 1990 – Karnataka Scheduled Castes, Schedule Tribes and Other Back ward Classes (Reservation of Appointment, etc.) Rules, 1992 – r.7 – Single Judge dismissed the writ petition filed by respondent no.1 c laiming the benefit of reservation for Other Backward Classes as a me mber of the ‘Ganiga’ caste – Order set aside by Division Bench – Correctness of – Held: Division Bench observed that the Single Judge also accepted that the caste of the Responden t might be Lingayat-Ganiga but

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