Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006

The petitioners challenged the Government's notification dated 29 July 2021 granting 27% reservation for OBC (non‑creamy layer) and 10% reservation for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in the All‑India Quota (AIQ) seats for undergraduate and postgraduate medical and dental courses under NEET. The Court examined wheth…

The Supreme Court examined the meaning of the phrase "maximum cut‑off marks for OBCs be 10% below the cut‑off marks of general category candidates" in the clarificatory order dated 14‑Oct‑2008 issued in P.V. Indiresan's case, in the context of the Ashoka Kumar Thakur judgment. The dispute arose from Jawaharlal Nehru Un…

The appellants, two SC candidates, challenged the reservation policy of Manipur University, arguing that the 2012 Amendment to the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006 should not reduce SC reservation from 15% to 2% and that the amendment applied only to institutions in Sixth Schedule t…