NEET-PG Counselling : Supreme Court Reserves Order In EWS/OBC Case [LIVE UPDATES Of Day 2]

Shruti Kakkar

6 Jan 2022 10:08 AM IST

  • NEET-PG Counselling : Supreme Court Reserves Order In EWS/OBC Case [LIVE UPDATES Of Day 2]

    The Supreme Court will continue hearing today the cases related to OBC/EWS reservation in NEET-AIQ. The cases are listed as item number 33 before a 2-judge bench comprising Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice AS Bopanna. Stay on this page for live-updates from the hearing.The hearing is likely to determine whether the counselling for NEET-PG admissions will commence soon or not. Yesterday,...

    The Supreme Court will continue hearing today the cases related to OBC/EWS reservation in NEET-AIQ. The cases are listed as item number 33 before a 2-judge bench comprising Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice AS Bopanna.

    Stay on this page for live-updates from the hearing.

    The hearing is likely to determine whether the counselling for NEET-PG admissions will commence soon or not.  Yesterday, the Centre had requested the Court to allow the commencement of the counselling. The bench then sought the response of the petitioners opposing OBC/EWS reservation. Senior Advocates Shyam Divan and Arvind P Datar made arguments yesterday (for reports of their arguments, read here and here).



    Live Updates

    • 6 Jan 2022 3:24 PM IST

      ASG Nataraj referring to judgements to argue that reservation can be introduced through executive instructions.

    • 6 Jan 2022 3:11 PM IST

      Solicitor General says he will place on record certain judgments on prospective application. SG concludes.

      Additional Solicitor General KM Natarak now argues.

    • 6 Jan 2022 3:08 PM IST

      Solicitor General In medical, the courses are also time bound.  Any change at this stage would delay.

      Justice Chandrachud :  Okay Mr SG, I get it why the committee said about next year.


    • 6 Jan 2022 3:04 PM IST

      Justice Chandrachud : Mr.Mehta, we think we have given you substantial time. How much time you need to wrap up? We need to give the order too.

    • 6 Jan 2022 3:03 PM IST

      Solicitor General says that if the criteria is excluded this year, people who did not apply earlier may want to apply, and it will have a cascading effect.

    • 6 Jan 2022 3:01 PM IST

      Justice Chandrachud : Mr. Solicitor, one other thing we wanted to ask you, the Pandey committee, except for retaining the agricultural land criterion, has recommended doing away with the residential asset criteria because it is burdensome. But they said do away from next year. If it is burdensome, why not exclude it this year?

    • 6 Jan 2022 2:59 PM IST

      SG to answer the question posed by Justice Chandrachud refers to a part of the report .

      SG: Income here is family income. If there are 3 members in the fam earning 3 lakhs per year their income would be 9 lakhs and they would not come under EWS.

      SG: This would be more severe if there is 5 lakhs limit. What they say is if they don't want under exclusion they also don't want over inclusion.


      Judges concurring amongst themselves.


    • 6 Jan 2022 2:58 PM IST

      Justice Chandachud : Up to 5 lakhs, there is no income tax liability effectively. But in this 5-8 lakh limit, should we defer to the committee?

    • 6 Jan 2022 2:50 PM IST

      Justice Chandrachud : It appears this committee has attempted to justify EWS criteria post-facto.

    • 6 Jan 2022 2:46 PM IST

      Justice Chandrachud: From the first affidavit you say you decided to follow the creamy layer criterion. Now in the Pandey committee report, you say EWS is a stricter criteria. One area where we need to explain is, today's income tax limit is 2.5 lakhs. Up to 5 lakhs, you don't have to pay any tax because you get a rebate. So no income tax effectively till 5 lakhs.

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