OBC reservation cases to be heard on July 4

 

 

In the matter related to OBC reservation, a bench of the Supreme Court of India presided by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul ordered that hearing of all the above cases be fixed for hearing on July 4, 2023 after summer vacation. The hearing of four transfer petitions filed for transfer from Jabalpur High Court to the Supreme Court for hearing in the Supreme Court was postponed till July 4, 2023. Final hearing could not be held due to non-service of notice to all the parties. There are 67 petitions related to OBC reservation pending in High Court Jabalpur, hearing of these petitions has not been stopped.

The government has sent a letter to the Advocate General’s Office to get a list of all pending petitions related to OBC reservation in Indore, Gwalior and Jabalpur High Courts. There are more than one hundred petitions pending in all the three benches of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. Special advocates Rameshwar Singh Thakur and Vinayak Shah, appointed by the Madhya Pradesh Government to represent the OBCs, said that four transfer petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court, which were scheduled for second hearing on May 12, 2023. In the said petitions, Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta said that notices have not been served to all the non-applicants in the said cases, therefore hearing of the said cases is not possible.

Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul ordered that the hearing of all the above cases be fixed for hearing on July 4, 2023 after summer vacation. It may be noted that according to the decision of the batch of 9 judges of the Supreme Court in Indra Shahani vs. Union of India, several petitions including the OBC Advocates Welfare Association are pending in the Supreme Court for the demand of 27 per cent reservation in Madhya Pradesh. That’s why the High Court was informed about this fact in the previous hearing. Then the High Court had found that there is a lot of similarity between the pending petitions in the Supreme Court and the High Court. Because of this, the High Court had stopped the regular hearing midway and directed the government to take necessary action in this regard. Hearing of cases of OBC reservation in Jabalpur High Court is fixed on June 27, 2023, hearing of which is still not barred by the Supreme Court.