Tamil Nadu MP files review petition against Supreme Court’s quota sub-classification verdict
There were several ‘grave and manifest errors of law’ in the judgement from August 1, the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi founder claimed.
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Tamil Nadu MP Thol Thirumavalavan on Friday filed a review petition in the Supreme Court against its verdict permitting the sub-classification of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to provide reservations in government jobs and education, Live Law reported.
The Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi founder and MP from Chidambaram, in his review petition, said that there were several “grave and manifest errors of law” in the judgement that needed to be corrected.
On August 1, a seven-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, in a 6:1 majority verdict, overruled the court’s 2004 judgement, which held that Scheduled Castes formed a homogenous group and hence could not be sub-divided into categories.
Some activists welcomed the judgement as an important identifier to carve out sub-quotas for the most backward communities within the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes fold. Critics, however, questioned the rationale of the verdict and claimed that it could deepen social divisions, weaken the Dalit movement and alter the landscape of caste-based politics in India.
In his review petition, Thirumavalavan said that the court “erred in directing the state to take steps to evolve a policy for identifying the creamy layer from the SCs/STs so as to exclude them from the benefit of affirmative action,” The Times of India reported.
The Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi founder added that the verdict was issued by “locating the incorrect reasoning...
