Won’t reopen 2018 decision on grant of reservation in promotion to SC, ST: Supreme Court

Wednesday, 15 September 2021Newsdesk

The Supreme Court has orally observed that it will not reopen the issues settled by it in its 2018 judgment on the reservation in promotions in government jobs for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs).

New Delhi, 15 September 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express, a bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao, Sanjiv Khanna, and BR Gavai said Tuesday that it is for the states to chart out how to implement its directions. “We have already passed orders on how to consider backwardness, we cannot prescribe policy further. It is for the States to implement policy and not for us to prescribe…”, Justice Rao remarked, conveying the court’s no to reopening the Jarnail Singh ruling.

Source - indianexpress.com