The Patna High Court on Tuesday declared as “illegal” reservation of seats for Other Backward Classes and Extremely Backward Classes for election to municipal bodies in Bihar and ordered that polls be held only after treating such berths as those of general category.
A division Bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice S. Kumar passed the order, allowing a bunch of petitions challenging the quota system, and ruled that the elections be held “only by re-notifying the seats reserved…..treating them as general category seats”.
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