West Bengal Government Seeks Urgent Hearing on Quota Case in SC

• West Bengal government seeks an urgent hearing against a Calcutta High Court decision that excluded several castes, mainly Muslim communities, from the State’s Other Backward Classes (OBC) list.
• Senior advocate Kapil Sibal argues that appointments to public services were postponed due to case uncertainty.
• The court has requested clarification on the nature and scope of the survey and the state’s consultations with the West Bengal Backward Classes Commission.
• The court has also requested details of consultations during subclassification for reservation purposes.
• The judgment has affected five lakh OBC certificates issued since 2010.