Maratha quota row: Bombay HC to listen to plea difficult 10% reservation right now
On the Maratha quota row, Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya of Bombay Excessive Court docket on Friday mentioned that he’ll assign a bench to listen to a clutch of writ petitions and public curiosity litigations filed difficult the brand new Maratha Reservation Act of 2024 of the Maharashtra authorities.
On Thursday, the Bombay HC issued a discover to the Maharashtra authorities in search of its response on a PIL filed towards the choice to grant a ten% quota in jobs and schooling to the Maratha neighborhood.
The HC has requested the state to file its response inside 4 weeks.
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Final month, the BJP-Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction) authorities handed the Maharashtra State Socially and Educationally Backward Invoice 2024 offering 10% reservation for the Maratha neighborhood in schooling and authorities jobs.
Final week, advocate Jaishri Patil and others, had filed a Public Curiosity Litigation (PIL) towards the state authorities’s transfer, saying such a choice was taken by the federal government and opposition for the sake of “soiled politics”.
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The plea termed the transfer because the “destruction of the fundamental construction of the Structure”. It claimed the “politically motivated” choice was taken collectively by the state authorities and opposition with out following the principles of honest play and due course of. It urged the HC to declare the Maharashtra authorities’s choice as “unconstitutional” because the 50% restrict on reservation has been breached with out contemplating Supreme Court docket pointers.
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In June 2017, the then Devendra Fadnavis authorities constituted the Maharashtra State Backward Class Fee (MSBCC) headed by Justice (retired) MG Gaikwad to check the social, monetary, and academic standing of the Maratha neighborhood.
The Fee submitted its report in November 2018, classifying Marathas as a socially and educationally backward class (SEBC).
On Might 5, 2021, the Supreme Court docket struck down reservations for the Maratha neighborhood in faculties, greater instructional establishments, and jobs, after noting that there was no legitimate floor to breach 50% reservation whereas granting Maratha reservation.
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