JUDGMENT

S.S. Saron, J.

This judgment and order will dispose of the above mentioned four writ petitions that have been filed which primarily seek the quashing and invalidation of Schedule-III (Backward Classes Block ‘C’) of the Haryana Backward Classes (Reservation in Services and Admission in Educational Institutions) Act, 2016 (Haryana Act No. 15 of 2016) (‘2016 Act’ - for short) stating the same to be contrary to the basic structure of the Constitution, ultra vires, contemptuous, arbitrary; besides, being null and void. . The Act was notified on 12.05.2016.

2. In Murari Lal Gupta’s case, it is inter alia stated that in terms of the impugned provisions of Schedule III of the 2016 Act, reservation to six castes, i.e. Jat, Jat Sikh, Ror, Bishnoi, Tyagi, Mulla Jat/Muslim Jat has been provided by declaring them as Backward Classes Block ‘C’. According to the petitioners, this reservation is without any valid and lawful basis, besides, being contrary to the Supreme Court judgment in Ram Singh and others v. Union of India , (2015) 4 SCC 697. The said provisions of Schedule III of the 2016 Act, in fact amount to circumventing the Supreme Court mandate in Ram Singh’s case (supra) which, it