[Maratha quota case] Reservations may go, only EWS may remain, but these are policy matters for Govt to decide: Supreme Court - LIVE UPDATES

The Supreme Court is hearing the petitions challenging the validity of the Maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) Act, which had extended a 16% reservation for the Maratha community.

The Court has also decided to hear all States in the matter, after a question of whether the Indra Sawhney case should be reconsidered cropped up. This case puts a 50% cap on the reservation permissible for backward classes.

Final hearings in the matter had commenced on March 15.

To read accounts of the hearings on Day 1 and Day 2 click here and here. To read Day 3 arguments, click here. Attorney General KK Venugopal completed putting forward his views on the issue on Day 4. Read an account of Day 5 here, an account of Day 6 here and an account of Day 7 here. An account of yesterday's hearing can be read here.

Live updates of the hearing today feature here.