EWS Quota Case Hearing Day 5 - Live Updates From Supreme Court

AG: SCs and STs are extremely disadvantaged. That is why the state has sought to give them benefits. For that purpose, if you would look at Art 330.

AG: The violation of basic structure will not arise by the 103rd amendment.

AG: That is why I say there are two compartments. If your Lordships don't find that they can be put in separate compartments, I have placed judgements that this is exceptional circumstance.

AG: No difference can be made between this 10% and reservations for backward classes. They're all the same.

AG: If you find that they're all advanced, then in such a case, if you still continue to give them 10%, your Lordships can step in and ask on what basis reservation is being continued. A mechanism has been given to regulate the benefit.

AG: They'll have to be compelled to go to school - they'll have to be told you'll get free meals. Then their parents will send them. These are the people getting benefits. Therefore the day will come when the 10% will be reduced to 9,8,7 and 6.

AG: They have done what is right. Who are the people who are in non reserved categories? Forget creamy layer. Even workers in factories are far above the EWS. Their children are sent to factories, farms. They don't go study in school. 

AG: Even if they complain it is not that the EWS should not be given reservation. 

AG: It is not a sin. When the backward classes were given reservations, challenges were rejected and the reservations were upheld.

AG: These are the backward classes who are not in reserved categories. And then to say that backward classes only from caste based institutions are entitled is not justified.