Landmark JudgmentSupreme Court of IndiaState of West Bengal v. Anwar Ali Sarkar: the birth of reasonable classification under Article 14In 1952 a seven-judge Bench struck down the West Bengal Special Courts Act's power to refer individual cases to a special court, founding the reasonable-classification test under Article 14 and seeding the doctrine of arbitrariness.Valkya Editorial·15 Jun 2026·9 min