Reservation Can't Be On Basis Of Religion: Supreme Court In West Bengal OBC Case
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The Supreme Court on Monday verbally observed that reservation cannot be given based on religion, Live Law reported.
A bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan made the remarks while hearing a petition filed by the West Bengal government against an order of the Calcutta High Court quashing the classification of 77 communities, a majority of them Muslim, under the Other Backward Classes category.
On May 22, the High Court cancelled all Other Backward Classes certificates issued in West Bengal after 2010, saying that “religion indeed appears to have been the sole criterion” for granting the status to the 77 communities.