The Central government may file a review petition against the Supreme Court judgment scrapping the OBC status accorded to Jat community in nine States..According to this report, officials of various ministries including the Home Ministry and the Law Ministry are deliberating on deciding and framing the government’s next course of action in this regard. A delegation of Jat leaders had met Prime Minister Narendra Modi over quashing of OBC reservation for the community subsequent to which the government is deliberating on the possible steps that can be taken..A Division bench of the Supreme Court had quashed the notification granting Other Backward Community status to Jats. In doing so, the Court had described the Jat community as a politically organised class and had urged the government to look beyond caste centric parameters while ascertaining “backwardness”..Meanwhile, a few students belonging to the Jat community, who are in the midst of their admission process after writing the All India Post Graduate Medical Entrance Exam and All India Post Graduate Dental Entrance Exam, have approached the Supreme Court seeking clarity with regard to the applicability of the judgment on the ongoing admission process. These students had, initially, featured in the merit list for OBC candidates but were put in the General merit list subsequent to the judgment..According to their application,.“…the said judgment of this Hon’ble court has not clarified the applicability of the said judgment, that is to say, the judgment is silent on its applicability to those OBC students of the Jaat community who fall in the situation of the present applicants i.e. those students who were midway in their examination and admission process, at the time of passing of the said judgment.It is submitted that after having qualified the written examination held on 24.01.2015 for AIPGDEE 2015 & for AIPGMEE 2015 held between 01.01.2015 and 06.01.2015, if the candidates are now not allowed to sit for the OBC counseling to be held on 28.03.2015 and 29.03.3015, they shall end up losing an academic year and will have to appear in the written examination again. The Applicants in the present Application are not making submissions on merits in relation to the said judgment dated 17.03.2015, and are only seeking urgent directions as to the applicability of the said judgment on themselves.”.This case will be heard at 3 pm in court room 6 today. Senior Advocate Jayant Bhushan will be appearing for the petitioners..[Update] March 31, 2015 at 3 pm: The application filed by the Jat students has been dismissed by the Supreme Court with the judges remarking that “there is no vested right of admission”.
The Central government may file a review petition against the Supreme Court judgment scrapping the OBC status accorded to Jat community in nine States..According to this report, officials of various ministries including the Home Ministry and the Law Ministry are deliberating on deciding and framing the government’s next course of action in this regard. A delegation of Jat leaders had met Prime Minister Narendra Modi over quashing of OBC reservation for the community subsequent to which the government is deliberating on the possible steps that can be taken..A Division bench of the Supreme Court had quashed the notification granting Other Backward Community status to Jats. In doing so, the Court had described the Jat community as a politically organised class and had urged the government to look beyond caste centric parameters while ascertaining “backwardness”..Meanwhile, a few students belonging to the Jat community, who are in the midst of their admission process after writing the All India Post Graduate Medical Entrance Exam and All India Post Graduate Dental Entrance Exam, have approached the Supreme Court seeking clarity with regard to the applicability of the judgment on the ongoing admission process. These students had, initially, featured in the merit list for OBC candidates but were put in the General merit list subsequent to the judgment..According to their application,.“…the said judgment of this Hon’ble court has not clarified the applicability of the said judgment, that is to say, the judgment is silent on its applicability to those OBC students of the Jaat community who fall in the situation of the present applicants i.e. those students who were midway in their examination and admission process, at the time of passing of the said judgment.It is submitted that after having qualified the written examination held on 24.01.2015 for AIPGDEE 2015 & for AIPGMEE 2015 held between 01.01.2015 and 06.01.2015, if the candidates are now not allowed to sit for the OBC counseling to be held on 28.03.2015 and 29.03.3015, they shall end up losing an academic year and will have to appear in the written examination again. The Applicants in the present Application are not making submissions on merits in relation to the said judgment dated 17.03.2015, and are only seeking urgent directions as to the applicability of the said judgment on themselves.”.This case will be heard at 3 pm in court room 6 today. Senior Advocate Jayant Bhushan will be appearing for the petitioners..[Update] March 31, 2015 at 3 pm: The application filed by the Jat students has been dismissed by the Supreme Court with the judges remarking that “there is no vested right of admission”.