Ashoka Kumar Thakur Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and ors. (Obc Judgment)

Decided On : Apr-10-2008

Court : Supreme Court of India

LAW: Constitution, Constitution, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Constitution, Constitution, Act 5, Article 15 of the Constitution, Article 19, Article 30.11, Article 19(1)(g, Article 19(1)(g, Article 19(1)(g, Article 19(6, Constitution, Constitution, Article 15(5, Constitution, Article 19(1)(g, Constitution, Article 30 of the Constitution, Article 15, Constitution, Section 3 of Act 5 of 2007, Section 2(d, the Act as follows:2(d, section 3, the Societies Registration Act, Section 2(b, Section 4 of the Act, Section 3, Section 4, Section 3 of this Act, Section 2(f, article 30 of the Constitution and, Article 341, Article 342 of the Constitution.20, Section 5 of the Act, Section 5, section 3, section 3, Section 2 of the Act, a Central Act, the Societies Registration Act, Section 3 of the Act, Article 15, Article 46, Article 30, Article 30, Article 30 of the Constitution, Article 15, Constitution, Article 15(5, Constitution, Act 5 of 2007, the Act 5 of 2007, Constitution, Constitution, Act 5 of 2007, Section 3 of the Act, Article 15(5, Article 29(2, Constitution, Article 15(5, Article 15(1, Article 14, Constitution, Constitution, Constitution, Article 15(4, Article 14, Constitution, Article 15(3, Article 15 and Article 16, Constitution, Constitution, Article 368, Article 368, Constitution, Constitution, Act 5 of 2007, Constitution, Act 5 of 2007, Constitution, the Act 5 of 2007, Article 15(5, Constitution, Article 15(4, Article 15(5, Article 30(1, Constitution, Article 15(4, Constitution, Constitution, Article 15(4, Article 15(4, Article 15 or, Article 29(2, Constitution, Article 15(5, Article 15 or Article 19(1)(g, Article 15(4, Article 15(1, Article 29(2, Article 15(4, Article 15, Constitution, Article 15(5, Article 15(1, Article 29(2, Constitution, the Act 5 of 2007, Article 15(4, Constitution, Article 15(5, Article 15, Article 15(5, the Act 5 of 2007, Article 14 of the Constitution of India, Article 45, Article 20 of the Constitution, Constitution, Article 15, Constitution, Article 15(4, Constitution, Article 15(5, Article 19(6, Article 15(5, Article 30, Article 15(5, the Act 5 of 2007, Constitution, Article 19(1)(g, Constitution, Constitution, Article 368, Article 15(5, Constitution, Article 19(1)(g, Article 26, Article 30(1, the Act 5 of 2007, Article 15(1, Constitution, Constitution, Constitution, Constitution, Constitution, The Fundamental Rights in Part III, Constitution, Constitution, Article 45, 86th Amendment, Constitution, Article 21A. Clause 2 of Article 38, Article 46, Constitution, Constitution, Constitution, Constitution, Constitutional, the Fundamental Rights, Article 15(4, Constitution, Article 19(1)(g, Article 19(1)(g, Article 15(4, Constitution, Constitution, Article 15(5, Article 19(1)(g, Article 30, Article 15(5).43, the 24th Amendment, Constitution, Article 19(1)(f, the 44th Amendment, Constitution, the Fundamental Rights, Constitution, Article 15(4, Constitution, the Fundamental Rights of OBCs, Article 15(5, Article 15(5, Article 15(5, Article 30, Article 15(5, Article 15(4, Article 15(5, Article 15(4, Article 15(5, Article 15(4, the Article 15(5, Article 368, Article 162, Article 15(5, Article 162, the 42nd Amendment of the Constitution, Constitutional, Article 15(5, Article 19(1)(g, Constitution, Constitution, the Act 5 of 2007, Section 2(g, Act 5 of 2007, Act 5, Act 5 of 2007, Constitution, Constitution, Article 16(4, Article 15(4, Article 15(4, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Constitutional, Article 15(5, Article 16(4, Article 16(1, Article 15(1, Article 15(5, Article 29(2, Article 29(2, Constitution, The Indian Constitution, Constitutional, Constitution, Constitution, Act 5 of 2007, Constitution, the Indian Constitution, Constitution, the Indian Constitution, Article 15(1, the Constitution of the United States, the Vth Amendment of, the Constitution of the United States of America, The XIVth Amendment, Article 15(4, Article 15(4, Article 19(1)(g, Article 15(5, Constitution, Article 19(1)(g, Article 15(5, Article 30, Article 15(5, Article 15(5, Constitution, Constitution, Constitution, Article 15(5, Article 15(5, Article 368(2, Article 245, Constitution, Article 15(4, Article 162, Constitution, Article 15(3, Article 15, Constitution, Article 368, The Fundamental Rights, Constitutional Amendment, Article 14, Civil Rights Act, Article 14 to 18, Constitution, Constitution, Article 38).67, Article 15(5, Article 15(5, Article 15 of the Constitution, Article 38, Constitution, Constitution, Constitution, Constitution, Constitution, Constitution, the Constitutional Amendment, the Act 5 of 2007, Article 15 of the Constitution, Constitution, Constitution, Article 15 of the Constitution, Constitution, Article shall, Article 29, Article or Sub-clause, Article 19, Article 30.77, Article 19(1)(g, Constitution, Article 19(6, Constitution, Constitution, Constitution, Constitution, Constitution, Constitution, Article 15, Constitution, Constitution, Article 15(4, Article 15(5, Article 15(5, Constitution, Article 15(4, Article 15(5, Constitution, Article 15(5, Constitution, Act 5 of 2007, Constitution, Constitution, Article 15 of the Constitution, Article 15 or, Article 19, Article 30, Article 15, Act 5 of 2007, Section 2(d, the Central Act, the Societies Registration Act, Act 5 of 2007, Constitution, the Constitutional Amendment, Act 5 of 2007

PERSON: K.G. Balakrishnan, Jawaharlal Nehru, Ambedkar, Lauterpacht, Lyndon Johnson, Rajendra Prasad, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Backward Classes, Scheduled Tribes, Socially, Educationally Backward Classes, Reasons, Tribes, Backward Classes, Schedule, Tribes, Backward Classes, Reasons, Bill, K.K. Venugopal, Shri P.P. Rao, Rajeev Dhavan, Kumar Jain, Shri Ashok, Kumar Thakur, Shri K. Parasaran, Shri Gopal Subramanium, Shri Ram Jethmalani, Indra Jaisingh, Shri Ravivarma Kumar, Supp, Counsel, Rajeev Dhavan, Backward Classes, Socially, Educationally Backward Classes, Articles 14, I.R. Coelho, Rajeev Dhavan, Indra Sawhney's, Articles 15(4, K.K. Venugopal, Articles 15(4, Socially, Educationally Backward Classes, Articles, Anr, Indra Sawhney's, Indra Sawhney's, Articles 14, Shri Sushil, Kumar Jain, Caste, Indra Sawhney's, Indra Sawhney, Kumar Thakur, Shri K. Parasaran, Shri K. Parasaran, P.A. Inamdar's, Shri Parasaran, Shri Parasaran, Narrow Tailoring, AIR2005SC162, Nagaraj, Creamy, Indra Sawhney's, Backward Classes, Nagaraj, Indra Sawhney's, Nagaraj, Shri Parasaran, Shri G.E. Vahanvati, Southern Railway, Bench, T. Devadasan v., Anr, Subba Rao, Articles 15(4, Anr, N.M., Articles 14, Articles 15(4, Chinnappa Reddy, Anr, Supp, Indra Sawhney's, Articles 15(4, Subba Rao, J., Indra Sawhney's, Articles 15(4, Saurabh Chaudri, Minor A. Peeriakaruppan, Anr, Tamil Nadu, Balram, Kumar, Anr, AIR, Schedule, Indra Sawhney's, Ambedkar, Indra Sawhney's, Articles 16(4, Articles 15(4, Sarva Shiksha, Bill, Indra Sawhney's, Shri Gopal Subramanium, A.K. Roy v. Union of India, Grutter, Gratz, Articles 16(4, Articles 16(1, Shri P.P. Rao, Rajeev Dhavan, Arjun Sen Gupta's, Shri Ram Jethmalani, Bench, Indra Sawhney's, Ferguson, Separate, Articles 15(4, P.A. Inamdar, Khanna, J., Golak Nath, Anr, Backward Classes, Backward Classes, Depressed Classes, Backward Classes, Depressed Classes, Backward Communities, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Shri K.M. Munshi, Draft, Shri K.K. Venugopal, Shri K. Parasaran

ORG: Court, the High Courts, the Congress Expert Committee, the Constituent Assembly, Constitutional, the International Court of Justice, State, Reservations, the Constituent Assembly, SC, Solicitor General, Additional Solicitor General, State, State, J.P., Ors, State of, Andhra Pradesh and Ors, T.M.A. Pai Foundation, Ors, Karnataka and Ors, State, Education, The Union Government, Parliament, State, SC, State, the Statement of Objects, State, Parliament, the State Legislatures, Parliament, The Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission, Central Educational Institution, Central Educational Institution', Central Educational Institution', -(i, the University Grants Commission Act, the Central Government, the Central Government, the Central Educational Institutions, Central Educational Institution, Constitution;(b, the Central Government, Minority Educational Institution, the Central Government, Minority Educational Institution', Minority Educational Institution', Parliament, the Central Government, the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions Act, the Central Educational Institutions, Central Educational Institution, Central Educational Institution, the Central Government, the 'Central Educational Institutions', the Central Government, Parliament, Central Government, the Central Government, The Statement of Objects, State, State, State, State, Parliament, the State Legislatures, Shri F.S. Nariman, Counsel Shri Sushil, the Union of India, Solicitor General Shri G.E. Vahanvati, Additional Solicitor General, Shri Harish Salve, State, State, Champakam Dorairajan 1951, State, State, Court, the Supreme Court, Court, Indra Sawhney v. Union of India, Court, Champakam Dorairajan, T.M.A. Pai Foundation, Ors, v. Union of India and Ors, LRS, T.N., Champakam Dorairajan, State, the Ninety-Third Amendment, the Doctrine of Equality, the Union Legislature, Minerva Mills Ltd., Ors, v. Union of India and Ors, the Ninety-Third Amendment, W.P., State, the Union of India, State, State, Shri F.S. Nariman, W.P., Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes, Court, R. Chitralekha, R. Chitralekha's, Bench, the Sachar Committee Report, Government, Government, the Union of India, the Citizens for Equality, Government, the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, SSA, Education, W.P., the Government of India, the Ninety-Third Constitutional Amendment, The Central Education Institution (Reservation in Admission, OBC, State, the Ninety-Third Constitutional Amendment, Court, Pai Foundation, P.A. Inamdar and Ors, Nationalization of Education', The Ninety-Third Constitutional Amendment, State, Reliance, Counsel, OBC, Counsel, Counsel, Union of India and Ors, the Ninety-Third Constitution Amendment, the Union of India, Court, Preamble, Preamble, Parliament, Fundamental Rights, Court, State, State, State, the Ninety-Third Constitutional Amendment, Kesavananda Bharati's, State, the Directive Principles of State Policy, Champakam Dorairajan, the Kesavanda Bharati, Court, Champakam Dorairajan's, the Provisional Parliament, the Constituent Assembly, T.M.A. Pai Foundation, State, State, State, Parliament, the State Legislatures, Kesavananda Bharati, Court, the Preamble of the Constitution, Fundamental Rights, Parliament, State, Parliament, State, State, The Ninety-Third Constitutional Amendment, State, Fundamental Right, Constitutional Amendments, Directive Principles of, Parliament, Parliament, Executive, Parliament, Parliament, Central Educational Institutions, Parliament, Petitioners, Court, Post, Medical Courses, 366(24, Andhra Pradesh and Ors, the Supreme Court, Scheduled Castes, Parliament, Scheduled Castes, Amendment, the Ninety-Third Constitutional Amendment, Parliament, Court, Solicitor General, the Union of India, Shri Harish Salve, M.R. Balaji and Ors, The Union of India, Triloki Nath v. State of, Jammu & Kashmir, Ors, The State of Andhra Pradesh and Ors, Solicitor General, State, Solicitor General, State, State, Solicitor General, State, Court, Ors, v. Union of India and Ors, Solicitor General, C.A. Rajendran v. Union of India, Court, Solicitor General, SC, the Madras Provincial, Subordinate Services Rule, Parliament, the Mandal Commission Report, the Mandal Commission, Solicitor General, the State Lists, the Central Government, the Central List, the Central List, the State Lists, the Supreme Court, the State List, the State Government, the National Commission, Solicitor General, the National Commission for the Backward Classes, The National Commission, the Central List, the Mandal Commission, Commissions, The National Commission, The National Commission, the National Commission, the National Commission, the Central List, The National Commission, State Commissions, the National Commission, the Central List, Solicitor General, State, Parliament, SSA, Government, Solicitor General, Parliament, Financial Memorandum, Parliament, Solicitor General, National Sample Survey Organisation, NSSO, NSSO, Parliament, Solicitor General, Solicitor General, Additional Solicitor General, Additional Solicitor General, Court, Additional Solicitor General, the United States Supreme Court, the University of California v. Bakke 438 US, Parents Involved, Seattle School District 127 SC, Court, Additional Solicitor General, Additional Solicitor General, Court, State, Additional Solicitor General, Government, Additional Solicitor General, W.P. No, Court, the United States Supreme Court, the Symbiosis University, the State Government, State, State, State, State, State, Court, T.M.A. Pai Foundation, T.M.A. Pai Foundation, Parliament, State, State, Kesavananda Bharati's, State, State, State, Kesavananda Bharati's, Kesavananda Bharati's, State, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of, the U.S. Supreme Court, Court, the US Supreme Court, SEBCs & SCs/STs, State, Pattali Makkal Katchi, Clause 4 & 5, Counsel, National Commissions, State Commissions, Census, State, the State Commissions, State, State, Committee, the Provincial Governments, Counsel, cooperatives, Counsel, Counsel, the Moily Report - Case, Parliament, State, State, State, State, State, State, T.M.A. Pai Foundation, State, T.M.A. Pai Foundation, State, State, Counsel, State, State, State, Parliament, the Central Government, the Central Government, the Central Government, the Ninety-Third Constitutional Amendment, Solicitor General, the Ninety-Third Constitutional Amendment, the Ninety-Third Constitutional Amendment, Court, the Ninety-Third Constitutional Amendment

GPE: India, India, India, India, ST, Counsel, Clause, Unni, Krishnan, ST, Clause, Clause, Clause, Clause, The State of Madras, the United States, Counsel, Counsel, Counsel, Counsel, Counsel, rights.39, Holiness, Kerala, Unni, Krishnan, India, India, India, Rangachari, Kerala, N.M., K.C., Karnataka, N.M., K.C., India, India, India, Rajasthan, Karnataka, India, the United States ', N.M., K.C., India, Plessy, Clause, I.C., India, India, Clause, Clause, States, States, Clause

CARDINAL: 2, two, One, 35, 4 6, 57, 5, 1, 1, 1, 645, 1, 5, 13, 7=%, seven, one-half, twenty-seven, 1860.15, 1, 2(h, 22, 4, 1, 1, 1, 5, two, 3, 525, 3, 215.27, 15(5, 16(4, 15(1, 16(1, 15(4, 15(5, one, one half, 21, 16(4, 1981]1SCR206, 598, 15(5, 15(5, 15(5, 15(5, 1964]6SCR368, 15(4, 15(5, 231/2007, 5, 10, 15, 598, II, one, 38, 40, 45, 15(5, 29(2, 30(1, 30(2, 11, 11, 25, 50, 51, more than 22, 52., 10, 341, 342, 366(25, 55, 15(5, 56, 57, 15(5, 59, 1970)IILLJ289SC, five, 1965)IILLJ560SC, 16(4, 16(1, 1, 103, 1976)ILLJ376SC, 16(4, 15(1, 16(1, 16(4, 15(1, 16(1, 16(4, 1971]2SCR430, 229, 1, 3, 15(4, 236, 297, 288, 15(5, 16(4, 1982CriLJ340, two, 15(4, 15(1, 313, 335, Nine, 16(2, 41, 256, 63, 16(4, 1, 25, 64, 4, 5, between 15(4, 15(5, 1967]2SCR762, two, two, 66, one, 2, 68., 69, 6.5, six, three, three, hundreds, 75, four, 5, 2, 5, 1, 1, 16, 14, 15(5, 1., Ninety-Third Amendment, 5, 1, 1, 5

PRODUCT: Constituent, The Act 5 of 2007, legislations.60, AIR1963SC649, Venkataramana, Venkataramana

NORP: Indian, Central Educational, British, Indian, republican, democratic, American, egalitarian, American, American, Marathas, American, American, Indian, Indian, American, egalitarian, Hindu, Hindu, Christians, Muslims, Hindu, Hindu, Central Educational Institutions

DATE: 1945, 1948, years, 1999, 2005, 2005, 1993, 2005, 2005, 2005, 2006, 1956, annual, 200418, annual, three years, 1960, 2005, 2005, 2005, 1992, 2005, 2005, 2005, 2005, 2005, 1880 to 2007, 1950, 1970, nature.30, 2007, 2006, centuries, 2005, 2005, 2007, today, the age of 14 years, 2006, 2007, many years, a number of years, 2007, 37, 2005, the 1st Amendment, 44, 46, 2007, 56 years, 54, 58, 1969, 15, 16, Vasanth, 1985, centuries, 1951, 1951, 1942, 14 years, 2001-2002, October 2006, 56 years, 2005, 1978, 2003, 2003, 2007, Vasanth, 2007, 2007, Articles 15(1, 1971, 1868, 1986, 1954, 1964, thousands of years, 70, 71, 1931, the 19th century, 2005, 2005, 2005, 2005, 2005, 2005, Articles 14, 15, 2005, 2005, 19, 21, 2005, 2005, 2005, 2005, 2005, 2007, 1860, 2007

ORDINAL: first, 51st, first, first, first

PERCENT: 27%, 15%, 27%, 27%, the 27%, 100%, 27%, 50%, 27%, 50%, 75%, less than 27%, around 36%, around 41%, 27%, less than 20%, 50%, 80%

WORK_OF_ART: the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Castes, The Constitution, The Constitution, Scheduled Castes, Preamble, Preamble and Part IV of the Constitution, The Doctrine of Strict Scrutiny, Directive Principles of State Policy in Part-IV of the Constitution, the Depressed Classes, The Constitution, the Scheduled Castes

MONEY: fifteen per cent

FAC: the Official Gazette, the Official Gazette, Constitutional, E.V. Chinnaiah v. State of, the Intervener-Rashtriya Janta Dal Party, the Golden Triangle of Articles

LOC: the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Castes, List III, Executive, Executive, Madras, W.P. 265/2006, the Scheduled Castes

EVENT: the Act 5 of 2007, List II, the Scheduled Castes

TIME: the 14th Amendment