The bench also explained that the creamy layer rule was introduced to keep reservation benefits focused on the most disadvantaged groups within the OBC category (Image: PTI) The Supreme Court observed ...

The Supreme Court has clarified that a candidate’s exclusion from the OBC quota cannot be decided solely based on parental income. A bench of Justices P S Narasimha and R Mahadevan ruled that the ...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the determination whether a candidate falls within the creamy layer or the non-creamy layer of the OBCs cannot be decided solely on the basis of the ...

The ‘creamy layer’ concept applies to certain categories of other backward classes candidates whose families have acquired social and economic privileges. Such candidates are excluded from ...

Settling the decades-long confusion over how to calculate wealth or income to determine the creamy layer status of OBC candidates for reservation purposes, the Supreme Court ruled this week that this ...