Can reservation be continued in perpetuity, asks Supreme Court

The Supreme Court asked on Thursday whether the backwardness of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes would persist forever, requiring the perpetuation of quotas. This response from a five-judge bench led by CJI Dipak Misra came after a clutch of senior advocates argued that the correctness of the SC's 2006 Nagraj judgment putting a spoke in quota in promotion needed to be tested by a seven-judge bench.

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