REGENT COMPUTRONICS PVT. LTD.

K.C.VASANTH KUMAR Appellant

V/S

STATE OF KARNATAKA Respondents

Referred Judgements :-

R. CHITRALEKHA V. STATE OF MYSORE [CONSIDERED (1964) 6 SCR 368:]
STATE OF MADRAS VS. CHAMPAKAM DORAIRAJAN [CONSIDERED]
T DEVADASAN VS. UNION OF INDIA AND UNOTHER [CONSIDERED : (1965) 2 LLJ 560]
ALL INDIA STATION MASTERS AND ASSISTANT STATION MASTERS ASSOCIATION DELHI VS. GENERAL MANAGER CENTRAL RAILWAY [CITED]
GENERAL MANAGER SOUTHERN RAILWAY GURBUX DAS INTERVENER VS. RANGACHARI [CONSIDERED (1968) 2 SCR 586: PER A. P. SEN,J. (1) MERE ECONOMIC BACKWARDNESS WOULD NOT SATISFY THE T]
M R BALAJI THE MYSORE STATE CHATHADA VAISH NAYA ASSOCIATION MYSORE ARYA VYSYA MAHASABHA BANGALORE VS. STATE OF MYSORE [CONSIDERED 1963 SUPP1 SCR 439:]
BHAIYA LAL VS. HARIKISHAN SINGH [CONSIDERED (1965) 2 SCR 877:]
TRILOKI NATH TIKU VS. STATE OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR [CONSIDERED : (1967) 2 LLJ 271]
S C JAISINGHANI C K TIKKU MOHAN CHANDRA JOSHI VS. UNION OF INDIA [CITED]
C A RAJENDRAN VS. UNION OF INDIA [CONSIDERED (1968) 1 SCR 721,734:]
MINOR P RAJENDRANMISS NIRMALA DEVI; MISS NISTHARINI K M SATHAKATHULLA VS. STATE OF MADRAS:DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL EDUCATION MADRAS [CONSIDERED (1068) 2 SCR 786:]
STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH VS. P SAGAR [CONSIDERED (1968) 3 SCR 595:]
TRILOKI NATH TIKU VS. STATE OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR [CONSIDERED 1969) 1 SCR 103 :]
MINOR A PEERIAKARUPPAN SOBHA JOSEPH VS. STATE OF TAMIL NADU [CONSIDERED : (1971) 2 SCR 430 : AIR 1971 SC 2303]
D N CHANCHALA USHA P BHASKAR RAMASUBRAMANYAM SETTY V V SOUDAMINI R JAYASHREE VS. STATE OF MYSORE [CONSIDERED : (1971) SUPP SCR 608: AIR 1971 SC 1762]
STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH VS. U S V BALRAM [CONSIDERED : (1972) 3 SCR 247]
JANKI PRASAD PARIMOO VS. STATE OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR [CONSIDERED : 1973 SCC (LANDS) 217: AIR 1973 SC 930: (1973) 3 SCR 236]
STATE OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR VS. TRILOKI NATH KHOSA [CITED]
STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH VS. PRADIP TANDON:STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH:STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH [CONSIDERED : (1975) 2 SCR 761]
STATE OF KERALA VS. N M THOMAS [CONSIDERED : 1976 SCC (L AND S) 227 : (1976) 1 SCR 906]
KUMARI K S JAYASREE VS. STATE OF KERALA [CONSIDERED : (1977) 1 SCR 194]
STATE OF KERALA M SALEENA VS. KUMARI T P ROSHANA:STATE OF KERALA [REFERRED TO]
AKHIL BHARATIYA SOSHIT KARAMCHARI SANGH RAILWAY VS. UNION OF INDIA [CONSIDERED : 1981 SCC (L AND S) 50: (1981) 2 SCR 185 716 MARC GALANTER-COMPETING EQUALITIES (1980); ]

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE Judgments of the court were delivered by

(2.) MY learned Brethren have expressed their respective points of view on the policy of reservations which, alas, is even 723 figuratively, a burning issue today. We were invited by the counsel not so much as to deliver judgments but to express our opinion on the issue of reservations, which may serve as a guide-line to the Commission which the Government of Karnataka proposes to appoint, for examining the question of affording better employment and educational opportunities to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other backward classes. A somewhat unusual exercise is being undertaken by the court in giving expression to its views without reference to specific facts. But) institutions profit by well meaning innovations. The facts will appear before the Commission and it will evolve suitable tests in the matter of reservations. I cannot resist expressing the hope that the deep thinking -and sincerity which has gone into the formulation of the opinions expressed by my learned Brethren will not go waste. The proposed Commission should give its close application to their weighty opinions. Mine is only a skeletal effort. I reserve the right to elaborate upon it, but the chances of doing so are not too bright.

(3.) IN the early stages of the functioning of the Constitution, it was accepted without dissent or dialogue that caste furnishes a working criterion for identifying socially and educationally backward class of citizens for the purpose of Article 15(4).

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K C VASANTH KUMAR Vs. STATE OF KARNATAKA

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