{"id":310332,"date":"2019-03-11T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310332"},"modified":"2019-03-11T11:00:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:00:51","slug":"sc-to-consider-referring-10-quota-challenge-to-larger-bench-next-hearing-on-march-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-to-consider-referring-10-quota-challenge-to-larger-bench-next-hearing-on-march-28\/","title":{"rendered":"SC to consider referring 10% quota challenge to larger bench, next hearing on March 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-633x420.jpg 633w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on Monday scheduled the hearing on petitions challenging the 10% reservation in educational institutions and government employment to the Economically-Weaker Sections to March 28.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it will consider whether the matter is required to be referred to a Constitution Bench.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;If it requires consideration by a larger bench, we will do it,&#8221; Gogoi said\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Bench, also comprising Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna said that it would consider the plea on referring the issue to a larger bench after senior counsel Rajeev Dhavan said the limit of 50 per cent was part of the Constitution&#8217;s basic structure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Bench asked Dhavan to tender a short note on his submissions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Narendra Modi-led NDA government in January had decided to amend the constitution to provide 10 per cent reservation in jobs and higher education for those belonging to the economically weaker sections.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday scheduled the hearing on petitions challenging the 10% reservation in educational institutions and government employment to the Economically-Weaker Sections to March 28. A Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it will consider whether the matter is required to be referred to a Constitution Bench. &#8220;If it requires consideration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310333,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310332\/revisions\/310333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}