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Jat Reservation Agitation Timeline: 2016 Violence to Courts

The Jat reservation agitation is a campaign, centred on Haryana, for Jats to be classed as OBC. The Supreme Court struck down their 2014 central OBC inclusion…

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2007

The Demand Organises

Meetings for OBC status begin.

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13 SEP 2010

Death at Mayyar

Sunil Sheoran killed in police firing.

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THE ROOTS

How the Demand Built Up

2007 to 2013.

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24 JAN 2013

A State Quota

10% for five communities.

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4 MAR 2014

Central OBC List

Overruling the NCBC.

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17 MAR 2015

Supreme Court Says No

Notification quashed.

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27 JUL 2015

State Quota Stayed

Jats lose both quotas.

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THREE QUESTIONS

Central, State, Law

Why each quota fell.

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14 FEB 2016

Rally at Sampla

Blockades spread.

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19 FEB 2016

Rohtak Burns

Firing, arson, curfew.

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21 FEB 2016

Munak Canal Seized

Centre promises a law.

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FEBRUARY 2016

Ten Days in Haryana

From Sampla to the canal.

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THE TOLL

What It Cost

30 dead, 208 injured.

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29 MAR 2016

A New Quota Law

Block C, six communities.

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13 MAY 2016

The Inquiry Reports

Failures of leadership.

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THE REPORT

Why Control Was Lost

Six findings.

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26 MAY 2016

Quota Stayed Again

The law stays on paper.

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1 SEP 2017

Act Upheld, Quota Frozen

Fresh data needed.

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26 MAR 2018

Status Quo

Still in force today.

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OCT 2021

Samiti Dissolved

To be rebuilt, he said.

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27 FEB 2026

56 Acquitted

Minister's house arson case.

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THE CASES

Ten Years of Trials

Mostly acquittals.

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TEN YEARS ON

Where Things Stand

A quota never applied.

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