Bench posted to August 24, further hearing of appeal filed by the Association, against the order of the single judge dated August 13, 2015
Madras High Court
Chennai: The Madras high court has ordered maintenance of status quo in the matter relating to the demand of Scheduled Caste candidates, who migrated from other states and lived in Puducherry for five years, to include them under Scheduled Caste category in admission to professional and other courses of higher education.
A division bench comprising Justices Satish K. Agnihotri and K. K. Sasidharan ordered maintenance of status quo on an appeal filed by the Pondicherry Scheduled Caste People Welfare Association, challenging an order of a single judge, which ruled that scheduled caste candidates who migrated from other states to Puducherry cannot demand right of reservation even though they had lived in the Union Territory for five years.
The bench posted to August 24, further hearing of appeal filed by the Association, against the order of the single judge dated August 13, 2015. Dismissing a batch of 25 petitions from Dalit candidates, Justice M.M. Sundresh had said, “Residents, as indicated in the Presidential order dated March 5, 1964, would only mean such residents who were available on that date, and not thereafter”. Merely because a person resides for various reasons in Puducherry, he cannot be given the status and he cannot be allowed to be brought under the umbrella of the Presidential order.
Similarly, such a person does not lose his right to reservation in the state in which he was a permanent resident and from where he had migrated to Puducherry”.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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