There is nothing axiomatic or eternal about one’s OBC status: Madras HC

MADURAI The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday said factual assertions regarding lack of objective data, explicit disregard for recommendations of expert commissions, and arbitrary nature of classifications raised serious doubts about the constitutional validity of the impugned entries in Schedule I of Tamil Nadu Government Servants (Conditions of Service) Act, 2016.

The court said this while hearing a petition filed by G.

Kodeeswaran of Melur taluk in Madurai district, seeking a direction to declare Schedule I to the Tamil Nadu Government Servants (Conditions of Service) Act, (Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 2016), so far as it includes Christian Nadar, Christian Shanar and Christian Gramani communities and to the extent it includes converts to Christianity in Meenavar, Parvatharajakulam, Pattanavar and Sembadavar, and Mukkuvar or Mukayar, was ultra vires the Constitution, being violative of Articles 14, 15(1) and 16 of the Constitution, and direct the authorities to delete these communities from the Schedule and from the list of Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes and…