<p>he Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside the Centre’s notification to include the Jat community in the central other backward classes (OBC) list for providing reservation. Explaining the decision, the court said that caste, though a prominent factor, can’t be the sole factor to decide backwardness. The apex court said that possible wrong inclusion of a caste in the OBC list in the past cannot be the basis of further wrong inclusions, while adding that inclusion of politically organized castes like Jat for reservations is not good for other backward classes. The court also pulled up the Centre for overlooking the findings of an OBC panel that said Jat was not a backward class. The judgment was pronounced by a bench of justice Ranjan Gogoi and justice Rohinton F. Nariman.</p>
