https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=188272 A locality-based admission rule was analysed under Article 14 for excluding permanent residents of Ahmedabad who studied in institutions outside the municipal limits. The court reasoned that a distinction based only on the physical location of the school, without a real nexus to the object of serving local residents through merit-based admissions, is artificial and arbitrary. At the same time, the rule was treated as capable of reasonable construction because it was subordinate legislation intended to preserve a substantial reservation for local residents. On that construction, permanent residents of Ahmedabad studying in the Ahmedabad Urban Development Area were included, and the challenge to the rule failed. en-us Wed, 13 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 23 Nov 2016 17:12:41 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=188272 A locality-based admission rule was analysed under Article 14 for excluding permanent residents of Ahmedabad who studied in institutions outside the municipal limits. The court reasoned that a distinction based only on the physical location of the school, without a real nexus to the object of serving local residents through merit-based admissions, is artificial and arbitrary. At the same time, the rule was treated as capable of reasonable construction because it was subordinate legislation intended to preserve a substantial reservation for local residents. On that construction, permanent residents of Ahmedabad studying in the Ahmedabad Urban Development Area were included, and the challenge to the rule failed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 13 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=188272