Jabalpur: The High Court has refused to hear the petition challenging the OBC reservation in NEET undergraduate counselling. On Monday, the matter came up for hearing before the vacation bench of Justice Atul Sreedharan and Justice Vivek Kumar Agarwal. At present, there is no such thing as urgency to hear the matter on the vacation bench. The legality of counselling being done at the rate of 27 per cent to Other Backward Classes in NEET undergraduate admission has been challenged by a petition filed by four students of unreserved category.
He has stressed giving 14 per cent reservations to OBCs. The same petition was heard along with all the petitions already pending. Additional Advocate General RK Verma on behalf of the State Government and Special Advocates Rameshwar Singh Thakur and Vinayak Prasad Sah appointed by the State presented their side. He argued that in these cases, the High Court had passed an order on September 1st, 2021 and made it clear that no interim order would be passed by the court in any case of OBC reservation. Instead, the cases will be finally disposed of. After considering this argument, the court proceeded with the hearing. With this petition, all 53 cases related to the OBC reservation were postponed to January 2022.