BREAKING: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS 10% RESERVATIONS FOR ECONOMICALLY WEAKER SECTIONS (EWS) LIVE UPDATES

Justice Bhat : This amendment is deluding us to believe that those getting social and backward class benefit is somehow better placed. This court has held that 16(1) and (4) are facets of same equality principle.

Justice S Ravindra Bhat dissenting : Our constitution does not permit exclusion and this amendment undermines the fabric of social justice and thereby the basic structure.

Justice Pardiwala :  Reservation should not continue for indefinite time so that it becomes a vested interest. Finally I uphold the EWS amendment.

(With this, 3 judges out of 5 have so far upheld the 103rd amendment. J Ravindra Bhat and CJI Lalit's pronouncement left)

#BREAKING 3 judges of the 5-judge bench upholds EWS Quota so far. The judgment of Justice Ravindra Bhat and CJI Lalit yet to be pronounced. 

Justice Pardiwala : While concurring with Justice Maheshwari and Bela Trivedi and while upholding the impugned amendment, I have thought it fit to observe "Reservation is not an end, it is means, it should not be allowed to become a vested interest"

Justice Trivedi : Representation of SC/ST in Parliament and legislative assemblies was to expire after the time limit. The reservation for Anglo Indians in Parliament has come to end. Likewise there should be time limit.

Justice Trivedi : At the end of 75 years of independence, we need to revisit the system of reservation in the larger interests of the society.

Justice Trivedi : Before parting, I have made observations on the timeline for reservations...I have said what was envisioned by the framers of the Constitution that the policy of reservation must have a time span has still not been achieved even after 75 years.

Justice Trivedi : Validity of 103rd Constitution Amendment is upheld.

Trivedi J: The amendment creates a separate class of EWS. The exclusion of SEBCs cannot be said as discriminatory or violative of Constitution