Apex
court to hear central varsities' OBC quota petition Monday
Friday July 01, 2011 03:10:50 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Declining
to give any immediate direction, the Supreme Court Friday posted
for Monday a plea seeking uniformity in the admission criteria for
Other Backward Castes (OBC) students seeking admission to central
universities, including Delhi University and the Jawaharlal Nehru
University.
The petition sought the stay of the Delhi High Court order of Sep
7 last year which had said that the minimum eligibility criteria
for admission under OBC category would be at a maximum 10 percent
below the minimum eligibility criteria fixed for the General
category.
The apex court vacation bench of Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice
A.K. Patnaik declined to hear the application and said it should
be placed before the regular bench that had issued notice in the
matter.
The application will now come up for hearing before the bench
headed by Justice R.V. Raveendran.
The petition contended that the high court order is in
contravention of the Supreme Court's constitution bench judgment
which said that OBC students shall get ten percent weightage as
compared to the minimum eligibility percentage prescribed for
General category students.
The petitioners who are OBC students have contended that both
Delhi University and JNU are misinterpreting the apex court
verdict.
As a result, a large number of OBC students are being denied
admission even though a number of seats reserved for them are
lying vacant, they said.
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