Quota benefits should not be denied to deprived sections: SC

February 25, 2016 20:32

The Supreme Court has set aside a Delhi high court verdict which held that selected persons cannot be accorded quota benefits on account of non-submission of OBC certificate before cut off date, saying weaker sections should not be deprived of reservation as they have been facing "centuries of oppression".

A bench comprising Chief Justice T S Thakur and V Gopala Gowda referred to an earlier high court verdict that had said that the candidature of those candidates, who belonged to the SC and ST categories could not be rejected simply on account of the late submission of caste certificate.

"The division bench of the high court erred in reversing the judgment and order passed by the single judge, without noticing the binding precedent on the question laid down by the Constitution Benches of this court in the cases of Indra Sawhney ...wherein this court ...held that the object of providing reservation to SC/ST and educationally and socially backward classes of the society is to remove inequality in public employment, as candidates belonging to these categories are unable to compete with the candidates belonging to the general category as a result of facing centuries of oppression and deprivation of opportunity.

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