Petitions challenging Reservation for economically weaker sections referred to 5 Judges Bench by SC- 05/08/2020

Janhit Abhiyan Vs. Union of India & Ors-A backward class cannot be determined only and exclusively with reference to economic criterion. Petitioners have also pleaded that the reservation of ten per cent of vacancies, in available vacancies/posts, in open competition on the basis of economic criterion will exclude all other classes of those above the demarcating line of such ten per cent seats.It is further pleaded that reservation in unaided institutions violates the fundamental right under under Article 19(1)(g) of the Constitution.