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2021 Supreme(SC) 248

ASHOK BHUSHAN, S.ABDUL NAZEER, L.NAGESWARA RAO, HEMANT GUPTA, S.RAVINDRA BHAT
Jaishri Laxmanrao Patil – Appellant
Versus
Chief Minister – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
Arvind P. Datar, Pradeep Sancheti, Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Pooja Dhar, Adovcate, Shyam Divan, Siddharth Bhatnagar, Amit Anand Tiwari, Premlal Krishnan, Rahul Arya, Vivek Singh, Utsav Trivedi, Anurag Mankar, Vinayak Bhandari, Ashish Choudhary, Aditya Sidhra, Nadeem Afroz, Bharti Tyagi, Adovcate, Vivek Singh, Adovcate, Ashutosh Dubey, Adovcate, Siddhartha Chowdhury, Adovcate, Samir Malik, Adovcate, Amol B. Karande, Adovcate, Rishi Kumar Singh Gautam, Adovcate, S.B Talekar, Vipin Nair, Adovcate, P.B Suresh, Karthik Jayashankar, Pradyna Talekar, Madhavi Ayyappan, Arindam Ghosh, Anshumaan Bahadur, Sanjay V.Kharde, Satyajeet S.Kharde, Kailas Bajirao Autade, Adovcate, Sheetal Patil, Prashant Shantaram Chaudhari, , Dr. Gunratan Sadavarte, Raj Singh Rana Adovcate, Pawan Kumar Shukla, Pankaj Kumar Singh, Makrand Pratap Singh, Mukesh Verma, Mr Kamal Kumar Pandey, Rakesh Kumar Mudgal, Govind Jee, Krishna Kumar Singh, Adovcate, Durga Dutt, for the Appearing Parties; K.K. Venugopal, Ld. AG, Tushar Mehta, Ld. SG, N. Venketaraman, Ld. ASG, Shraddha Deshmukh, Chinmayee Chandra, Rajat Nair, Kanu Agrawal, Navanjay Mahapatra, Amrish Kumar, Adovcate, for the Union of India; Mukul Rohatgi, Shekhar Naphade, P. S. Patwalia, V. A. Thorat, Sachin Patil Adovcate, Rahul Chitnis, Akshay Shinde, Vaibhav Sugdare, Misha Rohatgi Mohta, Harshika Verma, S. Lakshmi Iyer, Aaditya A. Pande, Geo Joseph, for the State of Mah.; Tushar Mehta SG, Kanu Agarwal, Aniruddha P. Mayee, Adovcate, for the State of Guj.; Jishnu M.L., Priyanka Prakash, Beena Prakash, G. Prakash, Adovcate, for the State of Kerala; Ruchira Gupta, Shishir Deshpande, Adovcate, Anurag Sharma, Abhishek Kumar Srivastava, for the State of Goa; Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, Anupama Ngangom, Karun Sharma, for the State of Manipur; Manish Kumar, Adovcate, for the State of Bihar; Kapil Sibal, Rajiv Ranjan, General, Arunabh Choudhary, AAG, Krishnaraj Thakker, AAG, Pragya Baghel, Vishnu Sharma, Kumar Anurag Singh, Parthiv Goswami, Abhishek Roy, Aastha Shreshtha, Tulika Mukherjee, Adovcate, for the State of Jharkhand; Mukul Rohatagi, Prabhuling Navadgi, Gen, Shubhranshu Padhi, Adovcate, Ashish Yadav, Rakshit Jain, Vishal Banshal, Shubhranshu Padhi, Adovcate, Manu T. Ramachandran, Adovcate, for the St of Karnataka; Sameer Abhyankar, Adovcate, for the State of Sikkim; Amit Kumar, Avijit Mani Tripathi, Adovcate, Shaurya Sahay, Aditya Shankar Pandey, T.K. Nayak, for the State of Meghalaya; S. Niranjan Reddy, Mahfooz A. Nazki, Adovcate, Polanki Gowtham, Shaik Mohamad Haneef, T. Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Amitabh Sinha, Shrey Sharma, for the State of Andhra Pradesh; Dr. Manish Singhvi, D. K. Devesh, Adovcate, for the State of Raj.; Ravindra Lokhande, AAG Abhimanyu Tewari, Adovcate, Eliza Bar, for the State of Arunachal Pradesh; K N Balgopal, K. Enatoli Sema, Adovcate, Amit Kumar Singh, Nitya Nambair, Vitso Rio, for the State of Nagaland ; Shuvodeep Roy, Adovcate, for the State of Tripura; Arun Bhardwaj, Dr. Monika Gusain, Adovcate, for the State of Haryana; M. Yogesh Kanna, Adovcate, Raja Rajeshwaran. S, for the State of T.N.; Suhaan Mukerji, Vishal Prasad, Nikhil Parikshith, Abhishek Manchanda, Sayandeep Pahari, PLR Chambers & Co. for the State of W.B.; S.C. Verma, General, Prachi Mishra, Sumeer Sodhi, Adovcate, Manoj Kumar Singh, Hussain Ali, Chaitanya Bansal, Kartik Pant, for the State of Chhatisgarh; Abhinav Mukerji, AAG, Mrs. Bihu Sharma, Pratishtha Vij, for the State of H.P.; K.V.Jagdishvaran, G. Indira, Adovcate, for the For U.T. of Andaman & Nicobar Islands; Taruna Ardhendumauli Prasad, Adovcate, Parth Awasthi, Kapil Sibal, Sudhanshu S. Choudhari, Mahesh P. Shinde, Rucha A. Pande, Anil Golegaonkar, Rajesh Tekale, Ashish Gaikwad, Madhur Golegaonkar, Bhavana Khichi, Bhagwan Gavali, Vatsalya Vigya, Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Prashant Shrikant Kenjale, Adovcate, for the U.T. of J&K Braj Kishore Mishra, Vinod Kumar, Abhishek Yadav, Dilip Annasaheb Taur, Adovcate, Rajesh Tekale, Ashish Gaikwad, Ramesh Dube Patil, for the Appellant; Ankit Yadav, Adovcate, Ms Jaikriti S Jadeja, Adovcate, Mr S. HariHaran, Mr Amit A. Pai, Mr A. Karthik, Ms Pankhuri Bharadwaj, Ms Smriti Suresh, Ms Bhavana Duhoon, Ms Ranu Purohit, Ms Jasmine Damkewala, Adovcate, Ms Vaishali Sharma, Mr Dinesh Chander Trehan, Sneha Ravi Iyer, Adovcate,. Akash Avinash Kakade, Somanath Padhan Adovcate, Swetab Kumar, ocate, Sukhada Omprakash Kakade, Kaleeswaram Raj, Mohammed Sadique T. A., AoR, Varun C. Vijay, Aruna A., Thulasi K. Raj, Maitreyi S. Hegde, Kaleeswaram Raj, Mohammed Sadique T. A., AoR, Thulasi K. Raj, Maitreyi S. Hegde, Uttara P. V., Sheryl Sebastian, Ravi Bharuka, Adovcate, Vishal Kadam, B.H. Marlapalle, Ajit Pravin Wagh, Adovcate, Astha Prasad, Ms Prabhleen Kaur, Ishita Farsaiya, Apurv Shukla, Pranav P. Patil, Krishna Kumar, Dr. (Mrs. ) Vipin Gupta, Adovcate, Ashok Arora, Rajeev Kumar Bansal, Adovcate, Suhaskumar kadam, Manju Jetley, Adovcate, Sanjay Kharde, Satyajeet Kharde, Samrat Krishnarao Shinde, Adovcate, Somya Chakraborti, Rajsaheb Patil, Ravi Prakash Jadhav, Akshata Jadav, Swati Vaibhav, Adovcate, Amol Nirmalkumar Suryawanshi, Adovcate, U.A. Rana, Himanshu Mehta, M/s. Gagrat & Co. for the Intervenor; Sathish Chanda Verma, General, Dr.Rajesh Pandey, Prachi Misra AAG, Sumeer Sodhi, Chaitanya, Karthik Pant, Aswathi M.k., Adovcate, Dinesh.P.Rajbhur, Ranbir Singh Yadav, Anzu. K. Varkey, Adovcate, for the Impleader A. Karthik, Adovcate, Smrithi Suresh, Arsh Khan, Sreepriya K, Dr. A.P. Singh, Sadashiv, AoR, V.P. Singh, Geeta Chauhan, Richa Singh, Sharwan Kumar Goyal, Jai Gopal Saboo, Abdulrahiman Tamboli, Rahul Joshi, Adovcate, Jaikriti S. Jadeja, Adovcate, V. K. Biju, Adovcate, Nishant Sharma, iteeya, Rakesh K. Sharma, AoR, Shivaji M. Jadhav, Adovcate, Brij Kishor Sah, Anish R. Shah, Qurratulain, Nicholas Choudhury, Aditya S. Jadhav, Joyshree Barman, Tapesh Kumar Singh, Adovcate, Aditya Pratap Singh, Bhaswati Singh, T. R. B. Sivakumar, Adovcate, Rajat Joseph, Adovcate, Amol B. Karande, Adovcate, Rakesh K. Sharma, Adovcate, Shriram P. Pingle, Adovcate, Sandeep Sudhakar Deshmukh, Adovcate, Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, Adovcate, V. G. Pragasam, Adovcate, Mareesh Pravir Sahay, Adovcate, Yadav Narender Singh, Adovcate, Vinay Arora, Adovcate, Farrukh Rasheed, Adovcate, Somanatha Padhan, Adovcate, Nirnimesh Dube, Adovcate, Pradeep Misra, Adovcate, Uttara Babbar, Adovcate, Sibo Sankar Mishra, Advocates

Judgement Key Points

The paragraph that discusses the principle that the State cannot override or occupy the "field" designated by the Constitution or central legislation as the exclusive authority for certain functions is (!) .


JUDGMENT :

ASHOK BHUSHAN, J.

(for himself and S. Abdul Nazeer, J.) L. Nageswara Rao, J. Hemant Gupta, J. and S. Ravindra Bhat have also concurred on Question Nos. 1, 2 and 3.

1. This Constitution Bench has been constituted to consider questions of seminal importance relating to contours and extent of special provisions for the advancement of socially and educationally backward class (SEBC) of citizens as contemplated under Article 15(4) and contours and extent of provisions of reservation in favour of the backward class citizens under Article 16(4) of the Constitution of India. The challenge/interpretation of the Constitution (102nd Amendment) Act, 2018 is also up for consideration.

2. All the above appeals have been filed challenging the common judgment of the High Court dated 27.06.2019 by which judgment several batches of writ petitions have been decided by the High Court. Different writ petitions were filed before the High Court between the years 2014 to 2019, apart from other challenges following were under challenge:

    The Ordinance No. XIII of 2014 dated 09.07.2014 providing 1


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