[ 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 E.V. Chinnaiah 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 reference making the overruling possible should ever have been entertained. A reading of her three-part dissent.