The Supreme Court has dismissed the Centre’s review petition challenging the court’s interpretation of the 102nd amendment to the Constitution, Live Law reported on Friday. In its review petition filed in May, the Centre had said that the power of the states to identify and notify socially and educationally backward classes cannot be scrapped.
The 102nd amendment to the Constitution, passed in August 2018, gave constitutional status to the National Backward Classes Commission. The amendment also gave the President powers to notify backward classes.
A five-judge constitution bench said the power that lies only with the president cannot be given to states. “The grounds taken in the review petition do not fall within the limited ground on which review petition can be considered,” the court said in an order posted on its website on Thursday. “The various grounds taken in the review petition have already been dealt with in the main judgement. We do not find any…