Supreme Court of India

Subrata Acharjee and Ors. v. Union of India and Anr.

Neutral citation
Bench S.P. Bharucha, Syed Shah Mohammed Quadri, Umesh C. Banerjee, S.N. Variava and Shivaraj V. Patil JJ.
Decided 7 February 2002

INSC stands for INDIAN SUPREME COURT. A neutral citation scheme assigned by the Court itself, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter. INSC is the neutral citation scheme assigned by the Supreme Court, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter.

3 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

From the headnote

Constitution of India, 1950: Article 332(3B)-Constitutiional Validity of-Reservation for Scheduled Tribes in legislative assembly of Tripura on the basis of existing number of members belonging to Scheduled Tribes in the Assembly-Provision transient in nature-Reservation challenged being not proportionate to population-­ Held, not violative of any of the constitutional mandate-Temporary measures shall have to be taken for social goal and for the benefit of the country as deemed expedient- Proportionality though mainly dependent upon the basis of population, cannot always be done with…

Sign in free to read it

  • The full judgment, page by page, as published in the Supreme Court Reports
  • Every bench that relied on it, and every bench that argued against it
  • Search every reported judgment, by party, citation or question
  • Download the PDF, copy pinpoint citations ready for a filing
Sign in to read - for free

An email address, no password.