Jabalpur: The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday struck down the 2019 law enacted by the Kamal Nath-led Congress government, which raised reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) to 27 per cent, calling it unconstitutional, and restored the quota to 14 per cent in the state.
In its 159-page order, a division bench of Justices Anand Pathak and Vinay Saraf also directed state recruitment agencies to fill the 13 per cent of posts kept on hold (after legal challenge to quota hike law) from the unreserved category within three months.
