The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Centre and the States on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking to bring advanced and affluent Scheduled Casts and Scheduled Tribes out of the purview of reservation. The bench headed by Justice R.B. Raveendran and A.K. Patnaik passed the order on Tuesday on a petition filed by a retired officer of Indian Legal Services O.P. Shukla. He was seeking the court's direction to exclude advanced and affluent Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes from the ambit of reservation in job and education.