[Reader-list] Vacant OBC seats to go to General Category: SC

[Rohit Shetti]

The last line is intriguing. "It will go back to general category". What
does 'back' imply? Or am I reading too much.

Rohit

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Aditya Raj Kaul
<kauladityaraj at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Vacant OBC seats to go to General Category: SC
>    New Delhi, Sep 15 (PTI) The Supreme Court today said that seats
> remaining vacant after the implementation of 27 per cent OBC quota in
> central educational institutions like IITs and IIMs will go to general
> category candidates and it would be "desirable" not to have huge difference
> in cut-off marks.
>
> A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan,
> which on April 10 had upheld the validity of the controversial law
> providing
> quota, was unanimous that there was no confusion on the issue as the three
> judges had clearly stated that no seats would go vacant.
>
> The anti-quota petitioners drew the attention of the bench that even after
> the implementation of the law -- the Central Educational Institution
> (Reservation in admission) -- seats have remained vacant and there was a
> confusion over it.
>
> Senior advocate K K Venugopal referred to the two judgements, one written
> by
> Justices Arijit Pasayat and C K Thakker and another by Justice Dalveer
> Bhandari, to buttress the stand that the seats added in the 27 per cent OBC
> quota which remained vacant after implementation of the Act cannot go
> waste.
>
> "What is the confusion. It was clarified in the judgement itself that the
> seats remaining vacant will go to the General Category," Justice Pasayat
> said.
>
> "Both the judgements clearly said that such vacant seats will go to the
> general category," added Justice Bhandari.
>
> At the outset when Venugopal said there was a need for clarification on the
> aspect of vacant seats, Justice Pasayat said, "This (wasting of seats)
> cannot be allowed. It will go back to the general category". PTI
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