Jun 17, 2025 09:18 PM IST The Calcutta excessive court docket noticed that authorized procedures and court docket directives had been violated by the #West Bengal authorities #Kolkata: The Calcutta excessive court docket on Tuesday ordered a keep until July 31 on the state’s notification on the revised #Other Backward Class (OBC) record during which 140 communities had been added, legal professionals who attended the listening to mentioned. The Calcutta excessive court docket. (File Photo) The court docket noticed that authorized procedures and court docket directives had been violated by the state. Lawyer Bikram Bandopadhyay, who represented petitioners difficult the #Trinamool Congress (TMC) authorities’s June 10 notification, mentioned the division bench of justices Rajasekhar Mantha and Tapabrata Chakraborty ordered the interim keep not solely on the issuance of the notification but additionally on issuance of OBC certificates primarily based on the brand new record. “The bench raised several questions when we pointed out that a proper survey on economic conditions and other parameters of 140 communities cannot be done in one and a half months as claimed by the state,” Bandopadhyay advised the media after the listening to. During the listening to, justice Mantha criticised the state saying: “You did half the work under the 2012 OBC Act and then reverted to the 1993 Act. Why is this inconsistency?” The order, which was handed after back-to-back hearings since Monday, was not uploaded on the excessive court docket’s web site until late night. Petitions difficult the federal government notification had been filed by three people and Atmadeep, a human rights organisation. In May 2024, after listening to petitions filed by the identical petitioners, the division bench of justices Rajasekhar Mantha and Tapabrata Chakraborty cancelled the OBC standing awarded to 77 Muslim communities by the state since 2010. This prompted the federal government to droop quota-based recruitments and school admissions and transfer the Supreme Court the place the matter remains to be pending. Of these 77 communities, 42 had been earmarked for OBC standing by the erstwhile Left Front authorities in 2010, a 12 months earlier than the Marxists had been ousted by chief minister #Mamata Banerjee’s TMC. The court docket barred the state from appointing individuals from these communities with fast impact however mentioned those that have joined service up to now on the premise of OBC reservation won’t be affected. In the May 2024 order, a duplicate of which was seen by HT, the bench mentioned: “This Court is of the view that the selection of 77 classes of #Muslims as Backward is an affront to the Muslim community as a whole. This Court’s mind is not free from doubt that the said community has been treated as a commodity for political ends. This is clear from the chain of events that led to the classification of the 77 classes as OBCs and their inclusion to be treated as a vote bank.” “Identification of the classes in the said community as OBCs for electoral gains would leave them at the mercy of the concerned political establishment and may defeat and deny other rights. Such reservation is therefore also an affront to democracy and the Constitution of India as a whole,” the order mentioned. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s #West Bengal unit president Sukanta Majumdar welcomed Tuesday’s order, saying “it has exposed the TMC’s efforts to appease #Muslims through the backdoor.” Defending the state, TMC spokesperson Arup Chakraborty mentioned: “The survey on economic condition and other parameters was conducted following guidelines set by the court. It is a propaganda that a specific community is being benefitted.” State authorities legal professionals mentioned the interim keep could be challenged on the Supreme Court instantly.

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