The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Maharashtra government to submit its data collected on the Other Backward Classes (OBC) to the State Backward Classes Commission (SBCC) and directed the commission to submit an interim report to the State on the same within two weeks.
Senior advocate Shekhar Naphade, representing the Maharashtra government, urged a Bench of Justices A.M. Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and C.T. Ravikumar to recall its order of notifying 27% of OBC seats to the general category. To which, Justice Khanwilkar said, “There is no question of recalling the order, it can be modified at best. There can be no reservation for OBC without the ‘triple test’ and a dedicated commission has to decide that ...”
