BY. UNIBA GHAZI

On Thursday, the Supreme Court held that states are constitutionally authorized to make sub-classifications within the Scheduled Cast and Scheduled Tribes. But, this verdict opposes by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati. On Sunday,she claimed that by saying; “They (the government) did not oppose it. Instead, their lawyers presented such
arguments that it helped the honourable Supreme Court in delivering this decision. Lawyers from either Congress’ side or representing the government, both facilitated the Supreme Court,”.

-> the Judgment was delivered by:

* the bench of seven Judge.

* led by the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud.

* bench also consist of Justice BR Gavi, Bela M Trivedi, Manoj Misra, Vikram Nath and Satish Chandra Shrama.

Moreover, the court also ordered that the sate should identify ‘creamy layer’ within the Scheduled Cast and tribes and further take them for the reservation.

Mayawati further said, “This shows that their intention is not right, instead of ending the reservation given to SCs and STs themselves, they are trying to end it through the judiciary and they have mostly been successful in it,”.

This judgment was held by a 6:1 majority, by reversing the 2004 decision in EV Chinnaiah vs Andhra Pardesh, where the Verdict held that sub-classfication was not permittable, saying that SC/STs form similar classes.