'Creamy layer' not applicable to SC/ST quota, govt tells SC

In India, some groups of people get extra help getting government jobs and school seats because they were treated unfairly in the past.

This special help is called 'reservation.'

The 'creamy layer' is the idea that people from these groups who have become very rich or successful should not get this extra help anymore.

The Supreme Court first created this idea in 1992 for one group of people called the Backward Classes.

Some people filed cases asking the court to also apply the rule to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

But the Government of India told the Supreme Court that the rule should not apply to those groups.

The government says an earlier Supreme Court decision already said this.

It also says judges should not tell the government how to make its policies.

The Supreme Court will now decide what to do with these cases.