Reservation has often been a point of contention in India since its inception. The occasional statements of the political leaders and the recurrent court rulings often sparked off the debate on reservation. Recently, the Supreme Court said that reservation is not a fundamental right rejecting a petition seeking OBC quota in medical colleges in Tamil Nadu. The judicial scrutiny on reservations occurred several times in India’s independent history. On February 7, 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that reservation in jobs and promotions are not a fundamental right and it’s the discretion of the state or central government to provide reservation in promotions. A five-judge bench in 1962 in the case of M.R. Balaji v. State of Mysore and another five-judge bench in C.A. Rajendran v. Union of India in 1967 had ruled that Article 15(4) is just an enabling provision which gives discretionary power to the government to make reservations. It means that the government is under no constitutional obligation to give reservations for SCs and STs either in the initial recruitments or in promotions. Similar inferences were upheld in several other court decisions including a nine-judge bench in Indra Sawhney v. Union of India in 1992 and in M. Nagaraj v. Union of India in 2006.