Supreme Court upholds internal reservation advancing social justice

Tamil Nadu, Punjab, and Haryana have implemented internal reservation for scheduled and tribals, with 3% for tribals. In 2009, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin filed a 3% reservation bill for disabled, which was later passed. However, cases were filed against this law, and the Supreme Court gave divergent judgements.
Further the Supreme Court had referred the cases filed by the state governments of Tamil Nadu, Punjab and Haryana to a 7-judge constitutional bench. The final judgment in this case was given yesterday (August 1) in favour of reservation.
The Supreme Court judges gave a historic verdict that there is no ban on reservation for Scheduled Tribes and the internal reservation laws will go ahead.
This judgment has protected the internal reservation given to Arundhathiyars in Tamil Nadu. The Court has confirmed that internal reservation provides equal opportunity to communities that have faced oppression over time. This is not only a great victory for efforts to establish social justice for the oppressed people, but also recognition of the social justice journey.
Apart from upholding the rights of state governments, the Supreme Court has also facilitated social justice. Indeed this is a milestone judgment in the history of social justice!