OBC ‘Quota War’ In Bengal | Why Calcutta HC Quashed OBC Quota For Muslims | West Bengal | News18
The Calcutta High Court has struck down a series of orders passed by the West Bengal government between March 2010 and May 2012 by which 77 communities (classes), 75 of which were Muslim, were given reservation under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category.A division Bench of Justices Tapabrata Chakraborty and Rajasekhar Mantha found that religion had been the “sole” basis for the West Bengal Backward Classes Commission and the state government to provide reservation, which is prohibited by the Constitution and court orders.
