OBC Reservation: All OBC reservation cases will be transferred from High Court to Supreme Court

Highlights

OBC reservation in Madhya Pradesh increased from 14 to 27 percent. 87:13 percent formula challenged in Supreme Court. Supreme Court will transfer 85 pending petitions.

Naiduniya Representative, Jabalpur. All the cases related to Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservation pending in the Madhya Pradesh High Court since 2019 will be transferred to the Supreme Court for hearing. A bench headed by Supreme Court Justice BR Gavai gave these instructions on Tuesday.

Supreme Court sought reply from MP government

The matter is about increasing the OBC reservation from 14 to 27 percent by amending the MP Public Service Reservation Act by the state government in the year 2019. At the same time, the Supreme Court has sought a reply from the Madhya Pradesh government on two petitions challenging the 87:13 percent formula.

A petition was filed in the Supreme Court by the state government to transfer the cases related to OBC reservation. During the hearing on this, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta presented his side on behalf of the MP government. Advocate Aditya Sanghi argued on behalf of the unreserved category that due to the pending transfer petition in the Supreme Court, these cases are not being heard in the High Court.

Many appointments are not being made by the MP Public Service Commission due to pending cases in the court. On this, the Supreme Court directed to immediately transfer all the 85 petitions pending in the MP High Court.

Now OBC cases are likely to be heard at a relatively faster pace in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will now decide how much reservation to give to OBCs. The decision to give 27 percent reservation to OBCs was first challenged in the High Court in the year 2019. After this, many petitions were filed. Some of these were filed in favor of OBC reservation and some against it. For the last one year, these cases have not been heard speedily.

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