...of two Constitution Bench judgments of this Court, one of 1963 in M.R Balaji v. State of Mysore AIR 1963 SC 649, 1963 Supp (1) SCR 439 and....3. In Ajit Singh II v. State of Punjab (1999) 7 SCC 209 it was stated (at pp. 229-30) relying upon earlier judgments starting from 1963...Caste/Tribe Employees' Welfare Assn. (Regd.) v. Union of India (1988) 4 SCC 147, (1988) 8 ATC 154 and State Bank of India Scheduled Caste/Tribe...

...Court in P. Sukhadev v. Government of Andhra Pradesh, the decision of this Court in M.R Balaji v. State of Mysore AIR 1963 SC 649, 1963 Supp (1.... For the purposes of these appeals it is only necessary to state that the observations made by this Court in Triloki Nath Tiku v. State of Jammu and Kashmir, AIR 1967 SC 1283, (1967) 2 SCR 265, (1967) 2 SCJ 187 that the principles laid down in M.R Balaji v. State of Mysore, will...the basis of caste, which is contrary to the principles laid down by this Court beginning from M.R Balaji v. State of Mysore. The Commission has not collected the necessary data and particulars for the...

...falls within the principles laid down in M.R Balaji v. State of Mysore AIR 1963 SC 649, 1963 Supp 1 SCR 439. The majority view in State of...reserved vacancies, and de-reservation is called for by reason of the prohibition, in clause (v) of para 2 of the office memorandum dated July 20, 1974, against the carry forward of reservations from...vacancies on the ground that the vacancies pertain to selection posts. On this point, we find ourselves bound by the decision of this Court in General Manager, Southern Railway v. Rangachari AIR 1962 SC 36...

...backward class of citizens within the meaning of Article 15(4). Reference in this connection may be made to the observations of this Court in M.R Balaji v. State of Mysore (1963...Wanchoo, C.J— The three petitions and the civil appeal challenge the same order of the State of Madras by which rules were promulgated for selection of candidates for admission to the First...medical colleges in the State of Madras while the seats therein were limited. In consequence, the State of Madras which runs these colleges framed rules for admission to them. It is not necessary to refer...

...total reservation would go beyond 50 per cent which is not permitted in view of the law laid down by this Court in M.R Balaji v. State of Mysore 1963...State Government in the counter-affidavit filed before the High Court justified the enactment of the impugned provisions on the following grounds:“This amendment was introduced to...Order1. The Andhra Pradesh Cooperative Societies Act, 1964 was amended in the year 1991 and a proviso was added to Section 31(1)(a) of the...

..., M.R Balaji v. State of Mysore (1963) Supp 1 SCR 439 in which Gajendragadkar, J., as he then was, speaking for the unanimous Court stated as...Railway v. Rangachari) (1962) 2 SCR 586 against the judgment of the Madras High Court and it was held in the majority judgment of this Court that the...Secretariat Service.Article 14 of the Constitution states:“The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal...

...(3) SCC 217 for deciding the grant of interim relief. The relevant question posed by Jeevan Reddy, J. is whether the 50% rule enunciated in M.R. Balaji v. State of Mysore 1963...not at the threshold. State of Punjab v. Davinder Singh (2020) 8 SCC 1 relates to sub-classification of Scheduled Castes and reconsideration of...the judgment of this Court in E.V. Chinnaiah v. State of A.P. (2005) 1 SCC 394 As such, the issue involved in that case is different from the dispute arising in the present matter. Instances of this...

...in the case of M.R Balaji v. State of Mysore and so, it is common ground that the petitioners are entitled to an appropriate writ or order as...petitioners) under Article 32 of the Constitution, challenging the validity of the orders issued by Respondent 1, the State of Mysore, under Article 15(4) of the Constitution on July...claimed by them.3. Learned counsel for the respondents however, drew our attention to the fact that as a result of the decision of the Court in the case of M.R Balaji Respondent 1 was...

...Court in M.R Balaji v. State of Mysore AIR 1963 SC 649, 1963 Supp 1 SCR 439. In that case, the State of Mysore passed an order reserving 68 per...(1969) 2 SCC 228, (1970) 1 SCR 413 has been reiterated by this Court in a later decision in D.N Chanchala v. State of Mysore...Kerala reserving 100 per cent seats to government and quasi-government employees irrespective of their category, came to be considered by the Kerala High Court in Jolly A.V v. State of Kerala...

...backward classes by the Government into backward classes and more backward classes was illegal and in support of that contention, our attention was invited to the decision of this Court in M.R Balaji v. State of Mysore AIR...MBBS course was done on State-wise basis. In the year 1967-68, the seats were distributed on district-wise basis but that scheme was held to be invalid by this Court in P. Rajendran v. State of Madras...interviewer happens to be and the odd questions that may be put to the persons interviewed may all go to affect the result of the interview. But as observed by this Court in R. Chitralekha v. State of...

...Article 15(4) could not be equated with castes. In M.R Balaji v. State of Mysore AIR 1963 SC 649, 1963 Supp (1) SCR 439 and State of A.P v...benefit of the State.33. The other two decisions on which Attorney General relied on are R. Chitralekha v. State of Mysore AIR 1964 SC 1823..., (1964) 6 SCR 368 and D.N Chanchala v. State of Mysore (1971) 2 SCC 293, 1971 Supp SCR 608. The classification in the...

...subject to the rule that such representation should not be excessive. In M.R Balaji v. State of Mysore(1) and Devadasan v. Union of India(2) the Supreme Court opined that any...(Delivered by Veeraswami C.J)These appeals are directed against a common order of Sadasivam J., who allowed the first (respondent's petitions one, for quashing the selection...of the second respondent as Inspector of Railway Mall service and the other for a mandamus directing the Director General of Posts and Telegraphs to select the first respondent for the post. The...

...Caste/Tribe Employees' Welfare Assn. v. State Bank of India (1996) 4 SCC 119. In fact, as long back as in 1963, in M.R Balaji v. State of Mysore AIR...balancing Article 16(1) and Articles 16(4) and 16(4-A). Such a balancing principle was enunciated by the Constitution Bench in 1963 in M.R Balaji v. State of Mysore AIR...1989 (Ajit Singh Januja v. State of Punjab (1996) 2 SCC 715, (1996) 33 ATC 239) (hereinafter referred to as Ajit Singh...

...educational institutions has been upheld in the case of M.R Balaji v. State of Mysore 1963 Supp 1 SCR 439, AIR 1963 SC 649 and a number of other...Amendment Act, 1951 as a result of the decision in the case of State of Madras v. Champakam Dorairajan AIR 1951 SC 226, 1951 SCR 525 setting aside...several kinds of positive action programmes in addition to reservations. It has, however, added a word of caution by reiterating M.R Balaji 1963 Supp 1...

....7. Mr Sibal has contended that in M.R Balaji v. State of Mysore AIR 1963 SC 649, 1963 Supp (1) SCR 439 this Court struck down the order by...) 4 SCR 680, (1965) 2 LLJ 560 was made.9. Mr Sibal has submitted that in Chakradhar Paswan (Dr) v. State of Bihar..., Public Grievances and Pensions (Department of Personnel and Training) of the Government of India in respect of reservation roster for implementation of the Supreme Court judgment in R.K Sabharwal v. State...

...M.R Balaji v. State of Mysore, AIR 1963 SC 649 in which it was pointed out by the Supreme Court that backwardness under...Annexures C and C-1 respectively to the supplementary affidavit, and also in letter No. 16443 dated the 21st May, 1960 from the State Government of Bihar to the Principal, Darbhanga Medical College with...year class of Darbhanga Medical College, but in view of the directions of the; State Government contained in the letters already referred to, the petitioner apprehends that candidates less meritorious...