Click to play videoNew Delhi: Young doctors protesting against implementation of the Other Backward Classes (OBC) quota marched into Supreme Court on Friday.
More than 150 of them surprised security personnel and entered the compounds. However, they didn't go into the court buildings.
The doctors are supporters of the Youth for Equality group which has been fighting OBC quota in higher education for the past two years.
The demonstrators raised slogans against the UPA Government, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Human Resource Development Minister, Arjun Singh. The policemen rounded them and took them away to the Tilak Marg police station.
SC UPHOLDS OBC QUOTA
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a law which provides for 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Castes (OBCs) in educational institutions supported by the Central government.
A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan ruled that the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006, does not violate the basic structure of the Constitution.
The court ruled that the 93rd Constitutional Amendment Act — which was the basis of the law providing 27 per cent reservation in aided institutions — didn’t violate the basic structure of the Constitution.
However, the court also ruled that creamy layer among the OBCs cannot get the benefit of quota. On quota in private un-aided institutions, four judges left the issue open and one judge ruled it would violate of the basic structure of the Constitution.
The 500-page verdict came on a petition by anti-quota activists challenging the Act. They had vehemently opposed government's move saying caste cannot be the starting point for identifying backward classes.
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