Supreme Court considers revisiting reservation in promotions and creamy layer for SCs, STs

In 2006, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court, delivering the judgment in the M. Nagaraj case, had ruled that the government is not bound to give reservation in promotions to the SCs and STs and also that the creamy-layer formulation cannot be applied to the two communities. Now, a decade on, another Supreme Court bench is considering a review of both those rulings