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OBC Status: SC refuses to stay Calcutta HC order on OBC tag for many communities

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OBC Status

SC refuses to stay Calcutta HC order on OBC tag for many communities

This story was originally published at 15:06 IST on August 5, 2024  Back
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The Supreme Court today refused to stay for now the Calcutta High Court's order scrapping the Other Backward Classes status of several communities in West Bengal, granted since 2010. As a result of the high court's order, approximately 500,000 Other Backward Class certificates issued under the West Bengal Backward Classes (Other Than Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) (Reservation of Vacancies in Services and Posts) Act, 2012 were cancelled. The court also issued notices to Amal Chandra Das and other parties--the initial litigants in the case--and sought information from the state government with regard to the list.

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