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Andhra High Court quashes quota for muslims |
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 Andhra Pradesh:Andhra Pradesh High court quashed the four percent reservation for muslims saying the reservation was not sustainable .
The seven memeber bench observed "The recommendations of the backward caste community is not sustainable so the enactment is also not sustainable." Many petitions were filed in the High Court challenging the legal validity of the the Andhra Pradesh Reservation in Favour of Socially and Educational Backward Classes of Muslims Act-2007.
The YS Rajasekhara Reddy government had attempted to give five per cent reservations through an executive order, but it was quashed by the High Court in 2005.
The order was passed by the seven-judge bench headed
by Chief Justice Anil Ramesh Dave on a petition filed by an
advocate K Kondala Rao.
Soon after the court's order, Chief Minister K Rosaiah
directed the state advocate general D S R Murthy to file a
special leave petition in the Supreme Court challenging the
verdict.
The court, in its order, set aside the state act and a
subsequent 2007 government order allocating 4 per cent
reservation to the Muslim groups in educational institutions
and jobs.
Earlier, the state had moved a bill in the Assembly on
the basis of a report submitted to it by the Andhra Pradesh
Commission for Backward Classes. The bill was later passed by
the Assembly.
The report had recommended that the socially and
educationally backward should be adequately represented in the
state.
The Congress government in the state had passed an Act on July 23, 2007 giving four per cent reservations in education and government jobs to 15 backward groups among Muslims. |
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Updated :
Monday, 08 Feb 2010, 14:36 [IST] |
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