SC to hear plea on Quota legalities on Jul 17

New Delhi, July 16: The Supreme Court will hear tomorrow the application filed by the Centre for vacation of interim stay granted by it against the implementation of the notificatiopn providing 27 per cent reservation to OBC's in Centrally-run educational institutions from 2007-08.

Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium today mentioned the application before a bench, comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, Justice Tarun Chatterjee and Justice R V Raveendran, seeking an urgent hearing on the ground that the process of admission has already started and its interim order dated March 29, 2007 would create confusion and chaos in the admission process.

The Additional Solicitor also contended before the apex court that the court had allowed the admission process to continue in Tamil Nadu under similar circumstances.

Earlier a bench comprising Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justicr Lokeshwar Singh Panta had stayed the impugned notification for one year, asking the Government to produce more authentic caste based census data before the court.

The case was later referred to a five-judge constitution bench on the gruond that the batch of petitions filed both for and against reservation, raised some important questions of public importance which deserve consideration by a larger bench.

UNI