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Supreme Court refuses to interfere in Bombay High Court stay on Maratha quota decision

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In a setback to the BJP government in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court on Thursday refused to interfere with the Bombay High Court's order staying the government decision on Maratha quota.

Before the assembly election this October, the state government had given 16% reservation to Marathas in jobs and educational institutions.

"It is just an interim order, let the Bombay High Court decide it," a bench headed by chief justice HL Dattu said, while refusing to hear a batch of petitions filed by various parties, including the Maharashtra government, on the issue.

The court, however, asked HC to dispose of the writ petitions as expeditiously as possible.

Earlier, HC had stayed implementation of the controversial decision of the erstwhile Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra to provide reservation to Marathas in government jobs and educational institutions.
It also stayed five per cent reservation to Muslims in government services but allowed quota in state-run/aided educational institutions, saying the community suffers from high dropout rate and the youth needed to be brought to mainstream education.

HC had said as per SC's previous directions, reservation can't exceed 50% of the total seats and the Congress-NCP government had, in the run up to the assembly polls, raised it to 73% by announcing 16% quota for Marathas and five per cent for Muslims.

The state has taken a stand that the two communities were socially, educationally and economically backward and government's decision was based on the report of a committee headed by former minister Narayan Rane set up to look into the issue.

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