[Commons-Law] A Supreme Court Judge on caste in judiciary

[Rohit De]

"This is rubbish because the constitution no where states that
no. of judges from any religion should be in proportion to the respective 
share of that religion in the population."

Reservations are not always the natural conclusion of questions of diversity 
and lack of representation. There are no reservations on the Constitutional 
Court of South Africa, yet the judiciary has a careful mix of Blacks, Whites 
and Indians, Christians and Muslims and almost half the bench of composed of 
women.

As for the AMU case, the Allahabad judgements reflected a poor understanding 
of law and a certain mindset which failed to appreciate the historic role 
that the AMU had played in creating Muslim middle classes in India.



>From: "ravi srinivas" <k.ravisrinivas at gmail.com>
>To: commons-law at sarai.net
>Subject: [Commons-Law] A Supreme Court Judge on caste in judiciary
>Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 08:25:12 +0530
>
>The case on AMU has nothing to do with the caste/faith of the judge(s).
>"The Hindu General (their terms) is over represented in the judiciary with
>almost twice their share in the population and constitutes almost half of
>all those in the judiciary. "
>
>Petty minds can not think beyond
>caste and religion based reservations at all levels.


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