‘Cap Is 50%’: Supreme Court Rejects Telangana Govt’s Plea on OBC Quota Expansion

A pack of stray dogs on a city street as India’s Supreme Court pulls up states and Union Territories over their failure to control the growing menace summoning Chief Secretaries to appear on November 3 to explain lapses in compliance.(PC: India Today)

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the Telangana government’s plea challenging the High Court’s interim stay on its decision to expand reservations for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) beyond the 50% ceiling limit. A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta upheld the Telangana High Court’s October 9 order, observing that previous judicial rulings including […]