The Hindu : SC declines to vacate U.P. order on quota

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Saturday, Apr 13, 2002

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SC declines to vacate U.P. order on quota

By Our Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI April 12. The Supreme Court today declined to vacate or modify its earlier orders staying all future appointments of persons belonging to most backward class under the U.P. Public Service (Reservation for SC/ST and other OBC) (Amendment) Act, 2001.

A three-Judge Bench comprising the Chief Justice, S.P. Bharucha, Justice Shivaraj V.Patil and Justice H.K. Sema dismissed an application from the U.P. Government seeking early hearing of the petition and in the meanwhile to modify its earlier stay order.

The then U.P. Government issued a notification on June 28 last year constituting a committee for making recommendations for reforms in connection with proper representation and to look into the overall conditions of SC/ST and OBCS in the State. Pursuant to the report submitted by the committee, the Government enacted legislation.

Challenging the Act, certain petitioners contended that the State Government had no constitutional powers to set up such a committee had enacted the law with an eye on the elections and the Apex Court stayed the operation of the Act.

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