New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday stated that caste cannot be the sole ground for reservation, while scrapping an earlier decision which grouped Jats among OBCs. The UPA government had announced reservation for Jats in 2014 by including them in the OBC category on the eve of the Lok Sabha elections.Â
However, a group of petitioners claimed that Jats were ‘politically and socially’ advanced and that the decision to extend reservation to them was electorally motivated.
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