https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=156524 Constitutional directions framed to verify caste claims were treated as a valid stop-gap mechanism filling a legislative vacuum to protect reservation benefits for genuine Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates, not as impermissible lawmaking. The caste scrutiny scheme could validly bar civil suits because it was designed as a self-contained, expeditious mechanism with finality subject to writ review under Article 226, while leaving High Court writ jurisdiction intact. However, a judicial direction could not extinguish a vested statutory or Letters Patent right of intra-court appeal, so the bar on such appeals was invalid to that extent. en-us Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 21 Sep 2013 12:39:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=156524 Constitutional directions framed to verify caste claims were treated as a valid stop-gap mechanism filling a legislative vacuum to protect reservation benefits for genuine Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates, not as impermissible lawmaking. The caste scrutiny scheme could validly bar civil suits because it was designed as a self-contained, expeditious mechanism with finality subject to writ review under Article 226, while leaving High Court writ jurisdiction intact. However, a judicial direction could not extinguish a vested statutory or Letters Patent right of intra-court appeal, so the bar on such appeals was invalid to that extent. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=156524