Vanniyar quota: SC to hear petitions challenging Madras High Court decision to quash T.N. reservation law
The Hindu
A Bench ordered that no fresh appointments to State Government services or admissions to educational institutions should be made till February 15, the next date of hearing in the case.
The Supreme Court on December 16 took on board a batch of petitions, including one by the Tamil Nadu Government, challenging a Madras High Court decision to quash a State quota law which provided 10.5% special reservation to Vanniyars, a most backward community.
A three-judge Bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao, B.R. Gavai and B.V. Nagarathna ordered that no fresh appointments to State Government services or admissions to educational institutions should be made till February 15, the next date of hearing in the case.
However, admissions and appointments already made, pursuant to a Madras High Court order of August 25, would not be disturbed. The High Court did not stay the Vanniyar quota law, following which the appointments and admissions were made in the State. But on November 1, the High Court went on to quash the quota law, leaving the appointments and admissions made vulnerable.