Datar: This Court has taken 50% as the outer limit for any affirmative action. It has read this limit even for 243D. Even though it was a 3-Judge Bench, the reasoning should be taken into consideration.

Datar: Even though this outer limit of 50% is not mentioned in the Constitution, it can be found under the brooding omnipresence of Article 14, that the right to equality is applicable everywhere.