CJI (referring to para 82) : now if we apply this test to the valmikis and mazhbi sikhs, they clearly form a class, because whatever they are trying to say in this para is not a general assertion that look a caste can never be a class. they say before you come to a conclusion that a caste can be a class that class must satisfy the yardstick of backwardness whether social, educational backwardness etc. In this case it is no one's case that you cannot satisfy the indicia of backwardness . so the fact that we are dealing today, everybody who is before us satisfies the indicia of backwardness, it is battle between backward v. backward , not backward v. forward