"Policy To Identify Creamy Layer Must": Judge's Big Remark In Quota Ruling
NDTV
The Supreme Court today cleared sub-classification within Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to extend reservation to the more marginalised
Delivering the landmark judgment clearing sub-classification within Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to extend reservation to the more marginalised, Justice BR Gavai said the State must come up with a policy to identify the creamy layer among these communities and take them out of the fold of affirmative action.
Justice Gavai is from the Dalit community and is set to become Chief Justice next year. He will be the second Dalit Chief Justice of India after KG Balakrishnan. In today's judgment, he made strong observations on how people from the creamy layer of backward communities were cornering quota benefits and depriving the majority.
"When a person gets into a compartment, he tries all means to stop others from getting into that compartment. Only on account of social justice they have got the benefit, but when state decides to give that benefit to the ones who are not adequately represented, then the same cannot be denied," Justice Gavai said.
