Decode Politics: How Punjab came to be among first states to sub-categorise SCs, and has been fighting to retain it
A seven-judge Bench of the Supreme Court Wednesday reserved its judgmenton the permissibility of sub-classification within SC/ST reservations. The Court is examining whether its judgment in E V Chinnaiah vs State of Andhra Pradesh & Others (2004) — where it ruled that Scheduled Castes (SCs) form a homogenous class and that there cannot be any subdivision among them — needs a relook.