We will challenge Calcutta HC order cancelling OBC certificates in West Bengal, says Mamata Banerjee
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday declared Other Backward Classes certificates issued in the state after 2010 as illegal.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said that her government will challenge in higher court the Calcutta High Court order that cancelled all Other Backward Class certificates issued in the state after 2010, PTI reported.
“We do not accept the order that scrapped OBC certificates,” Banerjee was quoted as saying at a Lok Sabha elections rally in South 24 Parganas district. “We will contest at a higher court after summer vacation.”
On Wednesday, a division bench of Justices Tapabrata Chakraborty and Rajasekhar Mantha of the Calcutta High Court struck 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, declaring Other Backward Classes certificates issued in West Bengal after 2010 as illegal.
Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress was in power in the state in 2012.
The bench, however, clarified that the judgement would not affect those who have already availed reservations using the caste certificates issued under the section.
Adding 77 groups of Muslims in the list of Other Backward Classes was to “treat them as a vote bank”, the court had said.
It also stated that the executive orders of the state government classifying 66 groups as Other Backward Classes before 2010 were not challenged in the petition and hence, were not...
