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About this topic ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) These notes cover the 57 most important cases of Indian Constitutional Law . They are the cases that keep coming up in LL.B. examinations, in judiciary examinations and in every serious discussion of constitutional law. Every case is studied…
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Constitutional Law II deals with civil liberties. It is studied in eight units, from the question of who is a citizen of India to how the Constitution enforces the rights it gives. These rights are at work in ordinary life: when a person speaks his mind online, prays in his own way, or is stopped b…
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Supreme Court of India · 1992
A nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court, by a 6:3 majority, upheld 27% reservation for O.B.C.s in central government jobs. It struck down the 10% reservation based only on economic criteria. It laid down the core rules of Indian reservation law: caste can be a class, the creamy layer must be excluded, reservation should generally not exceed 50%, sub-classification is allowed, and there is no reservation in promotion. These rules still form the backbone of reservation law.
Supreme Court of India · 1962
The Supreme Court struck down a Mysore Government Order that reserved 68% of seats in engineering and medical colleges, calling it a fraud on Article 15(4). It held that caste cannot be the sole test of backwardness and that reservation should broadly be less than fifty percent. This was the first case to lay down the fifty percent principle later reaffirmed in Indra Sawhney.
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