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2022 Supreme(SC) 60

L. NAGESWARA RAO, SANJIV KHANNA, B. R. GAVAI
Jarnail Singh – Appellant
Versus
Lachhmi Narain Gupta – Respondent


Advocates appeared:
For the parties :K.K.Venugopal, Ld. AG Vikramjit Banerjee, Ld. ASG Akshay Amritanshu, Ankur Talwar, Siddharth Kohli, Apoorva Kurup, Gurmeet Singh Makker, M.K.Maroria, A. K. Sharma Amrish Kumar, B.V. Balaram Das, Mr A Mariarputham, Avneesh Arputham, M/s.Arputham Aruna And Co, Manish Kumar, Pratik R. Bombarde, Pradeep S. Wathore, Devendra Kumar, Abhishek Kumar, Shailesh Madiyal, Ranjeeta Rohatgi, Abhinav Mukerji, Pratishtha Vij, Bihu Sharma, Akshay C. Shrivastava, Prerna Mehta, Shreyas Gacche, Swati Vaibhav, Dr. Gunratan Sadavarte Dr. Jay Shree Patil, Raj Singh Rana Pankaj Kumar Singh, Kamal Kumar Pandey Rakesh Kumar Mudgal, Dinesh Kumar Mudgal, Satpal Singh Som Raj Choudhury, Smarhar Singh, Shweta Kumari, Dr. Menaka Gurusamy, Sr., Prashant R. Dahat, Sangharaj D.Rupwate, Vijay Nirbhavane, Akash Moon, Smita Kamble, Shraddha Vavhal, Yash S Vijay, Rayavarapu Aishwarya Devi, Puneet Yadav, Sourabh Gupta, T. R. B. Sivakumar, R.D. Agrawala, Pradeep Kumar Mathur, Chiranjeev Johri, Sameer Agrawal, Sanjay R. Hegde, Sr. Manoj Gorkela, Gaganpreet Singh Chawla, Priyal Suryavanshi, M/s Gorkela Law Office, Rupinder Singh Suri, Ld. ASG Manoj Gorkela, Aditya Giri, Nikita Capoor, Priyal Suryavanshi, Gaganpreet Singh Chawla, M/s Gorkela Law Office, Ranjit Kumar, Sr. Manoj Gorkela, Gaganpreet Singh Chawla, M/S.Gorkela Law Office, Krishnan Venugopal, Manoj Gorkela, Shivendra Singh, Gaganpreet Singh Chawla, M/s Gorkela Law Office, Manoj Gorkela, Gagandeep Singh Chawla, Priyal Suryawanshi, M/s Gorkela Law Office, Nidhesh Gupta, Sr. Manoj Gorkela, Gaganpreet Singh Chawla, Priyal Suryavanshi, M/s Gorkela Law Office, Shuvodeep Roy, Kabir Shankar Bose, Ishaan Borthakaur, Indira Jaising, Deepak Jain, K.B. Pradeep, Jaspreet Aulakh, Tanpreet Gulati, A. Sumathi, Rajeev Dhavan, Atul Yeshwant Chitale, Tanvi Kakar, Atulesh Kumar, Saurabh Mishra, AAG Mrinal Elker Mazumdar , Vansaja Shukla, Manish Yadav, Soumya Chakraborty, Shobhit Tiwari, Lal Pratap Singh, Umesh Pratap Singh Arjun Aggarwal Bhaskar Aditya Gaurav Kejriwal, Chandra Bhushan Prasad, N. Annapoorani, Ravindra Keshavrao Adsure, Sidheshwar Namdev Biradar, Yash Prashant Sonavane, Sagar N.Pahune Patil, Sangeeta Sagar Pahune-Patil, Yogesh Ramesh Joshi, Sakshi Ajit Kale, Digvijay Shivaji Kachare, Suchitra Atul Chitale, Nalini Chidambaram, Vikas Mehta, Dr. Sukhdev Sharma, Dr. Shivani Gambhir, J.B.Mudgil, 15 Rakesh Kumar, Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Sansriti Pathak, Suyash Guru, Sandeep Devashish Das, Vinod Diwakar, AAG (State of U.P.) Alka Sinha, B.N. Dubey, Anuvrat Sharma, Basant Kumar Choudhary,Sr. Dinesh Dwivedi, Rituraj Biswas, Chandan Kumar, Rituraj Choudhary, Mayan Prasad, Sujaya Bardhan, P. Soma Sundaram, Uttara Babbar, Manoj Ranjan Sinha, Santosh Kumar Pandey, P. V. Yogeswaran, Suhaas Ratna Joshi, Suyash Mohan Guru, Amol Shrivasta, Vardhman Kaushik, Lalita Kaushik, Praveen Jain, Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi, Kanishka Prasad Ibad Mushtaq, Akanksha Rai, Gopal Shankar Narayan, Shobhit Tiwari, Lal Pratap Singh Umesh Pratap Singh, Arjun Aggarwal, Bhaskar Aditya, Vishal Singh, Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj, Shivani Vij, Ruchi Kohli, M. L. Lahoty, Paban K Sharma, Anchit Sripat, Pranab Kumar Nayak, Ruchi Kohli, Himanshu Gupta, Manoj C. Mishra, Rekha Pandey, L.C.Patne, Raghav Pandey, Aldanish Rein, Sunil Kumar Verma, D. Ramakrishna Reddy, D.Bharathi Reddy, Mrigank Prabhakar, Tanuj Bagga Sharma, D.K. Goswami, Sr. Saharsh Jauhari, Kuldeep Singh, Aditya Soni, M. Gireesh Kumar, Ankur S. Kulkarni, Shivam Singh, Yasharth Kant, B.Karunakaran, Mrs K. Balambihai S. Gowthaman, Nitin Meshram, Sourabh Singh, Rishi Raj Singh, Ranbir Singh Yadav, Senthil Jagadeesan, Sudarshan Rajan, Mahesh Kumar, Rohit Bhardwaj, Hiten Bajaj, Ramesh Rawat, ADN Rao, Annam Venkatesh, Rahul Mishra, K Lenin Devasahaya Vinober, Ananya Khandelwal, Agrimaa Singh, Sangeetha MR, D. Shiva Shankar, Vishal Gupta, Abhay Kant Mishra, Avijit Bhattacharjee Dinesh P.Rajbhar Anzu.K.Varkey Uday Gupta, Shivani M. Lal, Hiren Dasan, M. K. Tripathi, Harish Dasan, Rajiv Ranjan, Mohan Pandey, Avijit Mani Tripathi, Gaichangpou Gangmei, Abhay Kumar, Neetu Jain, Rajat Khattry, Saurabh Mishra, Kumar Milind, Shagun Ruhil, Vishal Nautiyal, Sachin Patil, Rahul Chitnis, Akshay Shinde, Aaditya A. Pande, Geo Joseph, Shwetal Shepal, Rohini Musa, Zafar Inayat, Abhishek Gupta, Namit Saxena, P.V.Dinesh, Vikalp Mudgal, Kshitij Mudgal, Raj Kumar, Colin Gonsalves, Olivia Bang, Disha Wadekar, Nihal Sing Rathod, Satya Mitra, K.Saradadevi, R.Vijaynandan Reddy, Naresh Kaushik, Vardhman Kaushik Manoj Joshi, Dhruv Joshi Prafful Saini, Nishant Gautam, B. Purushottama Reddy, Lalitha Kaushik, Satyajit A. Desai, Satya Kam Sharma, Siddharth Gautam, Himanshu Sharma, Anagha S Desai, Amit Anand Tiwari Brajesh Pandey, Anilendra Pandey, Ashok K Mahajan, Amita Singh Kalkal, K.K.L.Gautam, Chicalwar Rastrapal, Abhishek Kumar Suman, Manoj Sharma, Rahul Mohod, Abhishek Gurawa, Sandeep Kr. Singh, Abhishek Raj, Sanjeev Malhotra, Gopal Jain Devashish Bharuka, Sarvshree, Justine George Mr Manas Syal Indira Jaising, Sunil Fernandes, Nupur Kumar, Prastut Dalvi, Disha Wadekar, Paras Nath Singh, Ujjaini Chatterjee, Darpan Sachdeva, Shubham Sharma, Indira Jaising, Dr. K.S. Chauhan, Sr. Ajit Kumar Ekka, Ravi Prakash, Abhishek Chauhan, Ajit Kumar, Vishwa Pal Singh, Rajendra Prasad, Miss. Pallavi, Dinesh Kumar Mudgal, Arihant Mehta, Vikas Gothwal, Sanjiv Saraf, Praphul Kumar Vohra, Prateek Rai, Kiran Suri, Sr. S.J. Amith, Krishna Kumar, Dr. (Mrs.) Vipin Gupta, Anil Kumar, Vijay Sharma, Varinder Kumar Sharma, K.N.Rai, M/S.S.M. Jadhav And Company, Shashi Kiran, Dr. K.S. Chauhan, Sr. M. Vijaya Bhaskar, Murari Lal, Abhishek Chauhan, K.C. Lamba, Sumit Kishore, Dr. K.S. Chauhan, M. Vijaya Bhaskar, R.S.M. Kalky, S.P. Singh, Sunil Kumar, Ramesh Kumar, Gaya Prasd, Ravindra Kumar, Binay Kumar Das, Priyanka Das, Neha Das, Yadav Narender Singh, M. K. Bhardwaj, Ashutosh Kumar, Vedant Pardhan, Bano Deswal, Shweta Sharma, R. C. Kaushik, Sanjay Kharde, Chandan Ramamurthi, D.K Garg Dhananjay Garg, Abhishek Garg, Pradeep Kumar Mathur, Arvind Kumar Sharma, Arvind S. Avhad, Shantanu Krishna, B. Krishna Prasad, Gaurav Agrawal, Samir Ali Khan, B. Sridhar, Respondent-in-person Kuldip Singh, Mrs. Anil Katiyar, Ravindra Kumar, Hrishikesh Baruah, M. C. Dhingra, P. N. Puri, Anil Kumar Mishra, Ranjan Mukherjee, S. N. Bhat, Prashant Bhushan, Ashok K. Mahajan, K. N. Rai, Mrs. K. Sarada Devi, M. K. Dua, Ravindra Kumar, Binay Kumar Das, Priyanka Das, Neha Das, Gopal Singh, Vardhman Kaushik , P. V. Dinesh, Rahul Kaushik, Christi Jain, Arjun Garg, Nikilesh Ramachandran, Aswathi M.k., Dinesh Rattan Bhardwaj, Advocates

JUDGMENT :

L. NAGESWARA RAO, J.

1. Leave granted (except Diary No.38895/2017).

2. Reservation of 27 per cent in favour of backward classes was the subject matter of dispute in Indra Sawhney & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors., 1992 Supp (3) SCC 217. This Court was of the opinion that Article 16(4) of the Constitution of India does not provide for reservation in the matter of promotions. It was clarified that the judgment shall have prospective operation and shall not affect the promotions already made, whether made on regular or on any other basis. Reservation provided in the matter of promotions in the Central services or State services were directed to be continued for a period of five years from the date of the judgment.

3. By the Constitution (Seventy-seventh Amendment) Act, 1995, which came into force on 17.06.1995, Article 16 of the Constitution was amended by insertion of Article 16(4-A), which then read as below:-

    “Nothing in this article shall prevent the State from making any provision for reservation in matters of promotion to any class or classes of posts in the services under the State in favour of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes which, in the opinion of the State

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