[ Dissent ]
The Reference That Should Not Have Been Made: Bela M. Trivedi's Dissent on Sub-Classification and Stare Decisis
On 1 August 2024 a seven-judge bench overruled <em>E.V. Chinnaiah</em> by 6:1 and permitted States to sub-classify within Scheduled Castes. The lone dissenter, Bela M. Trivedi, devoted the first quarter of her opinion not to Article 341 but to whether the r...