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CASE NO.:

Appeal (civil) 3361 of 2002

PETITIONER:

President, SIUC

RESPONDENT:

State of Kerala & Ors

DATE OF JUDGMENT: 28/03/2006

BENCH:

S.B. Sinha & P.P. Naolekar

JUDGMENT:

J U D G M E N T

[WITH CIVIL APPEAL NO.3362/2002 &

WRIT PETITION (C) NO.322/2001]

S.B. Sinha, J :

Identical questions of fact and law being involved in these appeals and

the writ petition, they were taken up for hearing together and are being

disposed of by this common judgment. Hindu Nadars, represented by the

Hindu Nadar Corporation, a society registered under the Societies

Registration Act, 1860, are admittedly educationally and socially backward.

The question as regards the extent of reservation between Hindu Nadars and

those who were converted into Christianity (Christian Nadars \026 SIUC

Nadars) had been the subject matter of dispute for a long time. They have all

along been treated as belonging to separate and distinct class. According to

the Hindu Nadars they have all along been more socially and educationally

backward than the SIUC Nadars. Both the said categories of Nadars,

however, admittedly come within the purview of Oth