‘Calcutta High Court wants to run West Bengal,’ state government tells Supreme Court
The claim was made in connection with a case about the Calcutta High Court’s decision to annul all OBC certificates issued in the state after 2010.
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The West Bengal government on Monday told the Supreme Court that the Calcutta High Court was attempting to run the state’s administrative machinery, reported Bar and Bench.
The state government was clapping back at the Calcutta High Court for its critical remarks about the state while ordering the cancellation of all Other Backward Class certificates issued there after 2010.
A Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra was hearing an appeal by the West Bengal government challenging the High Court’s May judgement.
The High Court had held that Muslims had been treated as a “commodity for political ends” when the state government designated 77 classes of Muslims as “backward”.
Adding them to the list of Other Backward Classes was to “treat them as a vote bank”, the High Court had said, striking down Section 16 of the West Bengal Backward Classes (Other than Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) (Reservation of Vacancies in Services and Posts) Act, 2012.
On Monday, Senior Advocate Indira Jaising, representing the state of West Bengal, argued that the High Court’s actions amounted to judicial overreach.
“Why is all this happening.. because these are Muslims? And they say it is about religion... Complete falsehood,” Jaising said. “It is being said that I made reservations because there...
