May 05, 2021 02:22 pm | Updated November 30, 2021 06:37 pm IST
Lakhs of people gathered for the Maratha 'Mook Morcha' (silent procession) near Chhatrapati Shivaji terminus in South Mumbai on August 09, 2017.
A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously declared a Maharashtra law which provides reservation benefits to the Maratha community, taking the quota limit in the State in excess of 50%, as unconstitutional.
The court made it clear in its judgement that people from the Maratha community cannot be declared as educationally and socially backward community to bring them within the reserved category.
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