The Supreme Court’s flawed and jurisprudentially unsound judgment in E V Chinnaiah (2005), which prohibited inter se reservations among Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities, looks likely to be overturned by a seven-judge bench in State of Punjab v Davinder Singh. However, this may turn out to be too late to have any transformational effect on social justice, given
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Given that sub-reservation is horizontal in nature and would not add to the quantum of vertical reservation that already exists in the state, attempts at providing sub-reservation should not come under the scanner of the judiciary, as long as it is backed by empirical evidence to prove multidimensional backwardness