SC to hear Centre's petition on OBC quota

COURT CALL: A three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India will hear the petition on OBC quota.

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New Delhi: A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan will hear the Centre's petition on Tuesday, seeking to vacate its order staying the implementation of 27 per cent quota for OBCs in elite educational institutions.

The Centre had filed the application on Monday.

The court had in March stayed the OBC quota for the current academic year and referred the petitions challenging the Centre's law providing the OBC quota to a larger bench.

The three-judge bench headed by the Chief Justice of India will hear these petitions and may decide referring the issue to a constitution bench.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court on Monday restrained “until further orders” the Delhi University and Pune-based Symbiosis International University from providing 27 per cent seats reservation for OBCs.

A bench of Justices BN Aggrawal and PP Naolekar also issued notices to the universities to file their replies following two separate petitions challenging their decision to implement the Central Education Insitutions (Reservations in Admissions) Act, 2006, which provided for 27 per cent seats reservation in elite Central Educational Institutions.

The petitions filed by the NGO Youth for Equality and two students — Ankit Kumar, Shashank Shekhar — complained that the two universities were going ahead with the process of providing 27 per cent reservations despite the apex court staying the controversial Act on March 29 this year.

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