"You may be investigating a terrorist angle, but if you pick up someone, you have to follow the procedure," court said to Delhi Police
The Bench observed that the deprivation faced by EWS individuals was not comparable to caste-based discrimination, and the policy not to extend age and attempt relaxation to the EWS category was not "mala fide, arbitrary or unconstitutional" merely because it accorded different relaxations to different reserved categories.
As an interim relief, Supreme Court revives a January 2023 direction of a single-judge Bench of the Delhi High Court allowing Jane Kaushik the liberty to apply as a transgender person for any vacancy of her choice, ignoring the gender mentioned for the vacancy.