SC NO TO PLEA AGAINST 100% DOMICILE QUOTA IN J&K

NEWDELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a plea challenging legal provisions which provide 100% reservation to domicile of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir in public employment.

A bench comprising justices L Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and S Ravindra Bhat asked Ladakh-based lawyer Najum Ul Huda to move the Jammu and Kashmir high court with his plea.

The plea had sought “quashing of sections 3A, 5A, 6, 7 and 8 of the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Services (Decentralization and Recruitment) Act as violative of Articles 14, 16, 19 and 21 of the Constitution of India as these sections direct 100 per cent reservation to domicile of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir in public employment.” The plea, filed through lawyer Nishant Khatri, said that since the abrogation of Article 370 in August last year, the UT is equally subject to all laws and the Supreme Court judgments which are applicable to the rest of the country.