State of Kerala v. N. M. Thomas

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf legal case
gptkbp:citedBy 1976 AIR 490
gptkbp:court gptkb:Supreme_Court_of_India
gptkbp:decidedBy 1976-04-07
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label State of Kerala v. N. M. Thomas
gptkbp:impact Influenced_affirmative_action_in_India
gptkbp:judges gptkb:Justice_P._N._Bhagwati
gptkb:Justice_A._C._Gupta
gptkbp:legalStatus Constitutional Law
Right to equality
Equality before law
Doctrine of proportionality
Constitutional validity of reservation policies
gptkbp:notableFeature Significant in discussions on equality and justice
gptkbp:outcome Upheld the reservation policy
gptkbp:party gptkb:N._M._Thomas
State of Kerala
gptkbp:precedent Set a precedent for future cases on reservations
gptkbp:relatedPatent gptkb:Ashoka_Kumar_Thakur_v._Union_of_India
gptkb:Indra_Sawhney_v._Union_of_India
gptkb:M._Nagaraj_v._Union_of_India