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Out of five judges on Supreme Court bench, Justices Dinesh Maheshwari, Bela M Trivedi and J B Pardiwala agreed that the EWS amendment does not violate the 'basic structure of the Constitution'

The Supreme Court upheld the validity of the 103rd amendment to the Constitution introducing a 10 per cent reservation for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in admissions to educational institutions and government jobs, on Monday, November 7.

Out of the five judges on the bench, Justices Dinesh Maheshwari, Bela M Trivedi and J B Pardiwala agreed that the EWS amendment does not violate the 'basic structure of the Constitution'. The other two judges, Chief Justice of India U U Lalit and Justice S Ravindra Bhat dissented.

“It is an instrument not only for the inclusion of socially and educationally backward