New Delhi, March 12 -- The Supreme Court has ruled that the creamy layer status of Other Backward Classes (OBC) cannot be determined solely on the basis of parental income, and that treating children of Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) and private sector employees differently from those of government servants, for the purpose of reservation eligibility, amounts to hostile discrimination.

"Determination of creamy layer status solely on the basis of income brackets, without reference to the categories of posts and status parametres is clearly unsustainable in law", Times of India quotesd the Supreme Court bench

A bench of Justices P S Narasimha and R Mahadevan reportedly delivered the ruling while upholding judgements from the High Courts ...