The State Of Haryana State Of Haryana Chief Secretary vs. Gajey Singh Muwal (Dead) Thr. Lrs

ITEM NO.1501 COURT NO.1 SECTION IV

(for judgment)

S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Civil Appeal No(s).2317/2011

THE STATE OF PUNJAB & ORS. Appellant(s)

VERSUS

DAVINDER SINGH & ORS. Respondent(s)

WITH

C.A. No. 5593/2010 (IV)

SLP(C) No. 8701/2011 (IV-B)

W.P.(C) No. 1477/2019 (X)

W.P.(C) No. 21/2023 (X)

W.P.(C) No. 562/2022 (X)

C.A. No. 5586/2010 (IV)

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C.A. No. 5598/2010 (IV)

C.A. No. 5587/2010 (IV)

C.A. No. 5595-5596/2010 (IV)

C.A. No. 2324/2011 (IV)

C.A. No. 6936/2015 (IV)

SLP(C) No. 30766/2010 (IV-B)

SLP(C) No. 5454-5459/2011 (IV-B)

C.A. No. 2318/2011 (IV) Signature Not Verified

Digitally signed by Sanjay Kumar

SLP(C) No. 36500-36501/2011 (IV-B) Date: 2024.08.02 19:43:36 IST Reason:

C.A. No. 289/2014 (IV)

• T.C.(C) No. 37/2011 (IV)
• T.C.(C) No. 38/2011 (IV)

T.P.(C) No. 464/2015 (XII)

Date : 01-08-2024 These matters were called on for pronouncement of judgment today.

For Appellant(s) Mr. Kapil Sibal, Sr. Adv. Ms. Devyani Gupta, AOR Ms. Aparajita Jamwal, Adv. Ms. Arjoo Rawat, Adv. Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Mr. Rishabh Parikh, Adv. Ms. Saushriya Havelia, Adv. Ms. Tanvi Anand, Adv. Mr. K.K. Venugopal, Sr. Adv. Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, Adv. Ms. Supriya Juneja, AOR Mr. Manoj Swarup, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ankit Swarup, Adv. Mr. Neelmani Pant, Adv. Ms. Apoorva Singh, Adv. Mr. Rishi Bharagava, Adv. Mr. Rohit Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. Arun Bhardwaj, Sr. Adv. Ms. Gauraan, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj, Adv. Ms. Neha Mishra, Adv. Ms. Prachi Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sahil Sharma, Adv. Ms. Muskan Jain, Adv. Dr. Monika Gusain, AOR Ms. S. Harini, Adv. Mr. Shadan Farasat, A.A.G. Mr. Karan Sharma, AOR Mr. Harshit Anand, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Babbar, Adv. Ms. Natasha Maheshwari, Adv. Ms. Mreganka Kukreja, Adv. Mr. Prannv Dhawan, Adv. Mr. Anandh Kannan N., AOR

Mr. S. Gowthaman, AOR Mr. V. Puneedhan, Adv. Mr. Selvam P, Adv. Mr. Sameer Aslam, Adv. Mr. Abhisar Thakral, Adv. Ms. Roopa Paul, Adv. Ms. Sunita Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Parveen Paul, Adv. Mr. H L Chumber, Adv. Mr. Satyendra Kumar, AOR Mr. Robin Khokhar, AOR Dr. Sushil Balwada, Adv. Mr. Kaushal Yadav, AOR Mr. Ram Kishor Singh Yadav, Adv. Mr. Aditya P Khanna, Adv. Mr. Salman Khurshid, Sr. Adv. Ms. Ramiya Khanna, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Kr. Khanna, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ritul Tandon, Adv. Dr. Rashmi Khanna, Adv. Mr. Nandlal Kumar Mishra, Adv. Mr. Arjun Raghuvanshi, Adv. Mr. Sanchar Anand, Adv. Mr. Devendra Singh, AOR Ms. Diva Singh, Adv. Mr. Anant Kumar Vatsya, Adv. Mr. Karan Thakur, Adv. Mr. G Suresh, Adv. Mr. K. Seshachary, Adv. Mr. Rao Raj Bahadur Singh, Adv. Mr. Gajinder Chauhan, Adv. Ms. Yashswini,, Adv. Ms. Poonam Datta, Adv. For Respondent(s) Mr. Gurminder Singh, Adv. Gen./Sr. Adv. Mr. Shadan Farasat, A.A.G. Mr. Karan Sharma, AOR Mr. Harshit Anand, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Babbar, Adv. Ms. Natasha Maheshwari, Adv. Mr. Prannv Dhawan, Adv. Mr. Bankey Bihari Sharma, AOR Ms. S. Janani, AOR Mr. R. V. Kameshwaran, AOR

Ms. Vandana Gupta, Adv. Mr. Rahul Gupta, AOR Dr. K.S. Chauhan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ravi Prakash, AOR Ms. Vagisha Nandini, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Malik, Adv. Mr. Ashish Ranjan, Adv. Dr. K.S. Chauhan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ajit Kumar Ekka, AOR Mr. Pratik R. Bombarde, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Ravindra Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar, Adv. Mr. Prateek Bombarde, Adv. Mr. S.P. Singh, Adv. Mr. Gaya Prasad, Adv. Mr. Ramesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. R.S.M. Kalky, Adv. Mr. Alok Kumar, Adv. Dr. R.K. Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Murari Lal, Adv. Mr. Ram Kumar, Adv. Dr. K. Elumalai, Adv. Mr. Vipin Mehra, Adv. Mr. Sumit Kishore, Adv. Ms. Aditi Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Malik, Adv. Mr. Lokdeep Mourya, Adv. Ms. Gyan Mitra, Adv. Mr. Ajit Kumar, Adv. Mr. Hemraj Murmu, Adv. Mr. Bhim Kishor, Adv. Mr. Tushar Bakshi, AOR Mr. Shakti Kanta Pattanaik, AOR Mrs. Naresh Bakshi, AOR Mr. Shekhar Naphade, Sr. Adv. Mr. M.F. Philip, Adv. Ms. Purnima Krishna, AOR Ms. Aishwarya Dash, Adv. Ms. Farah Hashmi, Adv. Mr. Karamveer Singh Yadav, Adv. Mr. Prashant, Adv. Mr. Salil Sagar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Birendra Kumar Mishra, AOR Ms. Poonam Atey, Adv.

Mr. Samarth Sagar, Adv. Mr. Sankalp Sagar, Adv. Mr. Sirajuddin, Adv. Mr. Ziyaul Rahman, Adv. Mr. Shekhar Kumar, AOR Mr. Santosh Krishnan, AOR Mr. Arun Bhardwaj, Sr. Adv. Ms. Gauraan, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj, Adv. Ms. Neha Mishra, Adv. Ms. Prachi Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sahil Sharma, Adv. Ms. Muskan Jain, Adv. Dr. Monika Gusain, AOR Ms. S. Harini, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR Mr. Parth Sarathi, Adv. Mr. Gyanendra Vikram Singh, Adv. Ms. Soumya Gulati, Adv. Mr. Ashu Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. P.S. Teji, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kuldeep Singh Kuchaliya, Adv. Mr. Neelesh Singh Rao, Adv. Mr. Prativa Prakash Janapriya Nayak, AOR Mr. Satyendra Kumar, AOR Mr. Rakesh Dahiya, AOR Mr. Brij Bhushan, AOR Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. Vishal Prasad, AOR Mr. Abhay Anil Anturkar, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Tank, Adv. Mr. Aniruddha Awalgaonkar, Adv. Ms. Surbhi Kapoor, AOR Mr. Bhagwant Deshpande, Adv. Dr. Ajay Kumar, Adv. Mr. Nandlal Kumar Mishra, Adv. Mr. Ram Kishor Singh Yadav, Adv. Mr. Onkar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Vivekanand Rana, Adv.

Mrs. Anila Bharti, Adv. Mr. Anup Kumar Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Arjun Raghuvanshi, Adv. Mr. Pramod Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ritul Tandon, Adv. Mr. Onkar Nath Sharma, Adv. Mr. Kaushal Yadav, AOR Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Mr. B. K. Satija, AOR Dr. Vinod Kumar Tewari, AOR Mr. Arman Roop Sharma, Adv. Ms. Shymphy Sharma, Adv. Mr. Pramod Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Vivek Tiwari, Adv. Ms. Niharika Sharma, Adv. Mr. Jitesh Sharma, Adv. Mr. Nidhesh Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Dama Seshadri Naidu, Sr. Adv. Mr. G. Balaji, AOR Ms. Vriti Gujral, Adv. Ms. Shivali Chaudhary, Adv. Ms. Japneet Kaur, Adv. Mr. Ananvay, Adv. Ms. Jhanvi, Adv. Mr. Poorna Chandan, Adv. Ms. Vinny Shangloo, Adv. Mr. Rishabh Relan, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Sharma, Adv. Ms. Madhusmita Bora, AOR Mr. Pawan Kishore Singh, Adv. Ms. Anupama Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, A.A.G. Ms. Nidhi Jaswal, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Rajpal, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha, AOR Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Mrs. Anu K Joy, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv.

Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv. Mr. Aditya Krishna, Adv. Ms. Preet S. Phanse, Adv. Mr. Adarsh Dubey, Adv. Mr. Ajay Pal, AOR Mr. D. Kumanan, AOR Ms. Deepa S, Adv. Mr. Sheikh F Kalia, Adv. Mr. Chinmay Anand Panigrahi, Adv. Mr. Veshal Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Vishwa Pal Singh, AOR Mr. Ashish Pandey, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Adesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Pramod Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ombir Sangwan, Adv. Ms. Akrati Gupta, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Srisatya Mohanty, Adv. Ms. Anju Thomas, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Kaushik, Adv. Ms. Mantika Hariyani, Adv. Mr. Shreyas Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Chakravarty, Adv. Ms. Pratibha Yadav, Adv. Mr. Simranjeet Singh Rekhi, Adv. Ms. Ripul Swati Kumari, Adv. Mr. Bhanu Mishra, Adv. Ms. Muskan Surana, Adv. Mr. Abhijit Pattanaik, Adv. Ms. Lihzu Shiney Konyak, Adv. Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR Ms. Eliza Bar, Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Adv. Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar, Adv. General/Sr. Adv. Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR Mr. T.k. Nayak, Adv. Mrs. Rekha Bakshi, Adv. Ms. Marbiang Khongwir, Adv.

Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv. Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR Mr. Rahul Kumar, Adv. Mr. Kushagra Aman, Adv. Ms. Ayushi Bansal, Adv. Mr. Aakash Thakur, Adv. Mr. Gopal Shankarnarayanan, Sr. Adv. Ms. Devina Sehgal, Adv. Mr. Sravan Kumar Karanam, AOR Ms. Shireesh Tyagi, Adv. Ms. Tayade Pranali Govardhan, Adv. Mr. Akshay Mann, Adv. Ms. Soumya Gupta, Adv. Mr. Rudroji Rakesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Mr. Anjani Kumar Jha, AOR Mr. Vivek C. Solshe, Adv. Mr. Varun V. Solshe, Adv. DR Ashok Siddhartha Priya Ram Singh, AOR Mr. Ronak Karanpuria, AOR Mr. P. Venkatesan, Adv. Mr. Gurminder Singh AG/Sr. Adv. Mr. Shadan Farasat, A.A.G. Mr. Karan Sharma, AOR Mr. Harshit Anand, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Babbar, Adv. Ms. Natasha Maheshwari, Adv. Mr. Prannv Dhawan, Adv. Mr. Annam Venkatesh, AOR Mr. Ankit Swarup, AOR Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Mr. Krishan Kumar, AOR Mr. P. Soma Sundaram, AOR Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh, AOR Mr. Mohit Seth, Adv. Mr. Utkarsh Kokcha, Adv.

Mr. Rahul Jajoo, Adv. Mr. Sanchit Singh, Adv. Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. Vipin Kumar Jai, AOR Mr. Nidhesh Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Dama Seshadri Naidu, Sr. Adv. Mr. G. Balaji, AOR Ms. Vriti Gujral, Adv. Ms. Shivali Chaudhary, Adv. Ms. Japneet Kaur, Adv. Mr. Ananvay, Adv. Ms. Jhanvi, Adv. Mr. Poorna Chandan, Adv. Ms. Vinny Shangloo, Adv. Mr. Rishabh Relan, Adv. Ms. S. Janani, AOR Applicant-in-person Dr. Manoj Gorkela, Adv. Mr. Adutiya Veer, Adv. Mr. Varun Kumar, Adv. M/S. Gorkela Law Office, AOR Mr. S. Gowthaman, AOR Mr. V. Puneedhan, Adv. Mr. Sameer Aslam, Adv. Mr. Selvam P, Adv. Mr. Abhisar Thakral, Adv. Mr. Anand Sanjay M. Nuli, Sr. Adv. Mr. Suraj Kaushik, Adv. Mr. Agam Sharma, Adv. Mr. Nanda Kumar K.b, Adv. Ms. Akhila Wali, Adv. Mr. Shiva Swaroop, Adv. Mr. Akash Kukreja, Adv. Mr. Dharm Singh, Adv. M/S. Nuli & Nuli, AOR Mr. K. Paari Vendhan, AOR Mr. M Yogesh Kanna, Adv. Mr. S. Prabhu Ramasubramanian, Adv. Mr. Manoj Kumar A., Adv. Mr. Bharathimohan M, Adv. Mr. M. Vishal Sundaramughan, Adv. Mr. P. Ashok, Adv.

Mr. Vivek Sharma, AOR Dr. Vijay Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Jain, AOR Mr. Raghunatha Sethupathy B, AOR Ms. Priya R., Adv. Mr. S. Sabari Bala Pandian, Adv. Mr. Manoj Kumar A., Adv. Mr. Avinash Kumar, Adv. Mr. Santhosh K, Adv. Mr. Shekhar Kumar, AOR Mr. Ashok Kumar Sharma, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kshitij Mudgal, Adv. Mr. Vikalp Mudgal, AOR Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR Mr. Shivam Singh, Adv. Ms. Bahuli Sharma, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Narendra Kumar Goyal, Adv. Mr. Ikshit Singhal, Adv. Ms. Kajal Rani, Adv. Ms. Komal Singh, Adv. Mr. Jeetendra Kumar, Adv. Mr. Shantanu Jugtawat, Adv. Mr. Yatish Yadav, Adv. Mr. Sudeep Lakhotia, Adv. M/S. Mukesh Kumar Singh And Co., AOR Mr. Gopal Shankarnarayanan, Sr. Adv. Ms. Devina Sehgal, Adv. Mr. Sravan Kumar Karanam, AOR Ms. Shireesh Tyagi, Adv. Ms. Tayade Pranali Govardhan, Adv. Mr. Akshay Mann, Adv. Ms. Soumya Gupta, Adv. Mr. Rudroji Rakesh Kumar, Adv. Mr. V. K. Biju, AOR Mrs. Rekha Pandey, AOR Mr. Colin Gonsalves, Sr. Adv. Ms. Hetvi Patel, Adv. Mr. Satya Mitra, AOR Mr. Nitin Meshram, Adv. Mr. Ritesh Patil, AOR

Mr. Rishi Raj Singh, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Singh, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Sonkar, Adv. Mr. Vatsalya Vigya, AOR Mr. Shourajeet Chakravarty, Adv. Ms. Aprajita Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Sanjay R. Hegde, Sr. Adv. Mr. Anas Tanwir, AOR Mr. Ebad Ur Rahman, Adv. Ms. Sitwat Nabi, Adv. Ms. Riyal Suryawanshi, Adv. Ms. Masoom Raj Singh, Adv. Mr. Shahrukh Ali, Adv. Mr. Md. Asif Abbas, Adv. Mr. Ankit Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Tanay Hegde, Adv. Ms. Ambika Shirodkar, Adv. Mr A.D.N. Rao, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ashutosh Dubey, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Amit P. Shahi, Adv. Mr. D. Shiva Shankar, Adv. Ms. Rajshri A. Dubey, Adv. Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv. Mr. Guntur Peramod Kumar, AOR Mr. Keshav Singh, Adv.

• 1 Hon'ble Dr Justice Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, Chief Justice of India, pronounced the judgment on behalf of Hon'ble Mr Justice Manoj Misra and himself. Hon'ble Mr Justice B R Gavai and Hon'ble Mr Justice Pankaj Mithal pronounced their separate concurring judgments. Hon'ble the Chief Justice of India and Hon'ble Mr Justice B R Gavai agreed with each other's conclusions. Hon'ble Mr Justice Vikram Nath and Hon'ble Mr Justice Satish Chandra Sharma pronounced their separate judgments concurring with the opinions of Hon'ble the Chief Justice of India and Hon'ble Mr Justice B R Gavai.

• 2 Hon'ble Ms Justice Bela M Trivedi pronounced a separate dissenting judgment.

• 3 In terms of the majority opinions, the Judgment in E V Chinnaiah v State of Andhra Pradesh1 shall stand overruled and the sub-classification of the Scheduled Castes for the purposes of reservation is permissible.

• 4 The Registry is directed to obtain administrative instructions from Chief Justice for placing the matters before an appropriate Bench.

<span id="page-11-0"></span> (SANJAY KUMAR-I) (SAROJ KUMARI GAUR) ADDITIONAL REGISTRAR ASSISTANT REGISTRAR (Six reportable judgments are placed on the file)