‘Vanniyar reservation law unconstitutional’

The Madras High Court today quashed a special act allowing 10.5 per cent special internal reservation for the Vanniyakula Kshatriyas community, which falls under the Most Backward Community (MBC).

Justices M Duraiswamy and K. Murali Shankar allowed a batch of writ petitions filed in the principal seat of the High Court as well as its Madurai Bench challenging the validity of the law passed just hours before the model code of conduct came into force in the State in February for the Assembly election.

After the order was passed, advocate K Balu representing a group of petitioners supporting the reservation requested the court to suspend the order at least for a week for them to move an appeal in the Supreme Court.

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