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Chief Justice of India BR Gavai on Sunday said he still supported the exclusion of the creamy layer in reservations to the Scheduled Castes, saying that children of an IAS officer can not be equated with those of a poor agricultural labourer.

Addressing a programme, CJI Gavai said, “I also went further and took a view that the concept of creamy layer, as has been found in the judgment of Indra Sawhney (vs Union of India & Others). What is applicable to the Other Backward Classes should also be made applicable to Scheduled Castes, though my judgment has been widely criticised on that issue."

“But I still hold that judges are not supposed to normally justify their judgments, and I still have about a week to go (retirement)," Justice Gavai further said. He also said

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