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VIKRAM NATH, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA
Bhim Rao Ambedkar Vichar Manch Bihar – Appellant
Versus
State of Bihar – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Vikram Nath, J.
Application(s) for intervention/impleadment is/are allowed.
2. Leave granted in SLP (CIVIL) No. 18294 of 2021.
3. These two appeals assail the correctness of the judgment and order dated 3rd April, 2017 passed by the Division Bench of the Patna High Court whereby a group of four (4) writ petitions and one Letters Patent Appeal were decided by a common judgment dismissing all the five cases. The challenge in the writ petitions and the appeal before the Division Bench of the High Court was to a Notification dated 1st July, 2015, whereby the State Government had passed a resolution based upon consideration of recommendations by the State Backward Commission which had recommended that in the list of Extremely Backward Classes published under the Bihar Reservation of Vacancies in Posts and Services (for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other Backward Classes) Act, 1991, the caste "Tanti-Tantwa" recorded at Serial No.33 be deleted and the said "Tanti-Tantwa" be merged in the Scheduled Castes list with the caste 'Pan/Sawasi' mentioned at Serial No.20 so that they could get benefit of the Scheduled Castes. The operative part of the Resolution as contained in th
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