JUDGMENT

S.B. Sinha, J. — In these petitions, interpretation of this Court’s judgment as regards identification of ‘creamy layer’ amongst the backward classes and their exclusion from the purview of reservation, vis-a-vis, the report of Justice K.K. Narendran Commission (hereinafter referred to as ‘Narendran Commission’) and acceptance thereof by the State of Kerala in issuing the impugned notification dated 27.5.2000, falls for our consideration in this writ petition by the Nair Service Society (‘the Society’), a Society which was initially registered under Section 26 of the Travancore Companies Act, 1914 and after coming into force the Companies Act, 1956, it would be deemed to have been registered under Section 25 thereof. The objects of the Society are said to be:

(i) to remove the difference prevailing from places to places amongst Nairs in their social customs and usages as well as the unhealthy practices prevalent among them;

(ii) to participate in the efforts of other communities for the betterment of their lot and to maintain and foster communal amity;

(iii) to work for the uplift of the depressed classes;

(iv) to start and maintain such institutions as are found necessary to