By then the %u201CCommunal GO%u201D was challenged. In 1950, two litigants, Shanbagam Duraiswamy, and CR Srinivasan approached Madras High Court, stating that they were denied admission in the medical college because of the state%u2019s education policy. Duraisamy claimed that she had applied in a medical college but could not get admission. Her case was argued in court by Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer, a former Attorney General who was also a member of the Constituent Assembly. Srinivasan, whose case was represented by a retired judge, VV Sreenivasa Iyengar, stated that he could not get admitted despite having an engineering degree as he was a Brahmin. Madras High Court accepted the arguments and struck down the GO, stating that it went against Article 29 (2) of the Constitution. (No citizen shall be denied admission into any educational institution maintained by the state or receiving aid out of state funds on grounds only of religion, race, caste, language or any of them). The Supreme Court also upheld the High Court verdict. Later, it turned out that Duraiswamy had not even applied for admission in a medical college in 1950 and had completed her BA in 1934. The wide protests in Tamil Nadu following the Supreme Court verdict led to the first constitutional amendment ~ an addition of another clause in Article 15 (prohibition of discrimination on the basis of religion, race, caste, sex and place of birth) and restored reservation in the state. The added clause said that a state shall not be prevented from making special provision for educationally and socially backward classes, including SCs and
