allahabad high court
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Allahabad High Court granted two weeks’ time to UPPSC to file a reply and the candidate one week thereafter to file a rejoinder affidavit

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Reservation as a concept is very wide. Different people understand reservation to mean different things. One view of reservation as a generic

Delhi High Court
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The supernumerary seat was created by the respondents on their own and there was no direction for same in the interim order, thus, the caveat in the interim order that no equities would flow in favour of the petitioner, will not come in the way of the petitioner’s continuation against the said seat.

EWS category student
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Justice CD Singh echoed Swami Vivekananda’s words that “Now if the mountain does not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain. If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him.”

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Supreme Court observed that the persons from marginalised sections of the society already face severe discrimination due to a lack of social capital, and a new disability more often than not compounds to such discrimination.

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While Dinesh Maheshwari, Bela M Trivedi and JB Pardiwala, JJ wrote separate but concurrent opinions forming majority, S. Ravindra Bhat, J wrote the minority opinion for himself and U.U. Lalit, CJ.

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While Dinesh Maheshwari, Bela M Trivedi and JB Pardiwala, JJ wrote separate but concurrent opinions forming majority, S. Ravindra Bhat, J wrote the minority opinion for himself and U.U. Lalit, CJ.

Kerala High Court
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    Kerala High Court: In a writ petition filed seeking the issuance of an economically weaker section (EWS) certificate, V.G. Arun,

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by Subhashni Kumari*

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The percentage distribution of the indebted agricultural households depicted the poverty that envelops the class of small and marginal farmers.

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Madras High Court: The Division Bench of Sanjib Banerjee, CJ and P.D. Audikesavalu, J. while addressing the contempt petition, expressed that, Merely

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Madhya Pradesh High Court: The Division Bench of Sanjay Yadav and Rajendra Kumar Srivastava, JJ., dismissed a writ petition which was raised

Jharkhand High Court
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Jharkhand High Court: In an interesting case Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J., had held that the 10% reservation to Economically Weaker Sections cannot

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Bombay High Court: The Division Bench of S.V. Gangapurwala and Shrikant D. Kulkarni, JJ., directed that the petitioner, belonging to the Maratha caste,

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Delhi High Court: Prathiba M. Singh, J., while addressing the present petition issued directions with regard to the counselling process at the time

Chhattisgarh High Court
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Chhattisgarh High Court: Goutam Bhaduri, J., while dismissing the present petition held that, Legislature has before it a full panoply of legislative powers

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by Devika Sharma†

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The President on 12-01-2019 assented to the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty- fourth Amendment) Bill, 2019. It was passed by the Rajya