[nukkad] OBC quota stayed by Calcutta HC

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May 14, 2008 17:02 IST

Last Updated: May 14, 2008 18:48 IST



In a jolt to the Centre, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday stayed quota
for Other Backward Classes in post- graduate courses in the Indian Institute
of Management, Calcutta, and stopped the interview of OBC candidates for the
same.



Justice Maharaj Sinha, in an ex-parte interim order, granted the stay on a
petition by Sayan Guha, a B-Tech student challenging the Human Resource
Ministry's memorandum and also the IIM-C interview scheduled for Thursday.



The interim order stayed the operation of the reservation clause of IIM
prospectus and also the resolution of office memorandum dated April 20,
2008, passed by the HRD Ministry. The matter would come up for hearing again
on June 9.



The IIM-C had scheduled the special interview of OBC students following the
HRD memorandum. Guha's counsels Kishore Dutta and Nilava Bandopadhyay told
the court that the office memo and the subsequent reservation clause were in
violation of the April 10 Supreme Court order on reservation of OBCs, that
had set a yardstick for such quotas and defined the creamy layer that would
be out of the purview of reservation.



They said while the apex court had directed that graduates would not be
considered for reservation, the HRD ministry had, in violation of that,
passed an office memo to the effect that OBC students would get reservation
in post-graduate courses. No counsel appeared for the HRD Ministry and the
IIM-C.

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