Supreme Court stays 27.5 percent OBC reservation

New Delhi, Mar 29: The Supreme Court today stayed till further orders the operation of government notification issued in January this year providing for 27.5 per cent reservation for OBCs in the Centrally run educational institutions as IITs, IIMs and Post Graduate medical science courses.

A bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and Lokeshwar Singh Panta, however, made it clear that they were not staying the reservation for SCs and STs.

According to the Government notification OBC candidates were supposed to get 27.5 per cent reservation in admission to educational institutions from the academic session of 2007--2008.

The court also noted, ''We are of the view that the impugned notification and enforcing the reservation for OBCs in the educational institutions must be put on hold as the Government has failed to provide any authentic or reliable data to justify its policy of reservation.'' The hearing on the matter was adjourned till the third week of August.

UNI

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