New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday granted time till March 7 to the Centre to file its reply on the PIL challenging the Government's decision on reservation for backward classes in central educational institutions.
A Bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and S H Kapadia granted the time after the Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam, appearing for the Centre, sought time to file a proper reply on the petition.
The Bench, however, said that it would examine on March 7, the plea of M L Lahoty, counsel for the petitioner organisation "Youth for Equality".
The organisation has filed PIL for a stay on the admission process already undertaken by the Central institutes, which had extended the reservations benefits.
Lahoty complained the impugned notification issued by the Government on January 4, this year was arbitrary and highly discriminatory as no rational basis was adopted in extending the benefits.
He complained that since 1931, not a single census had been conducted in the country to record the status of the OBCs.
In one of the recent landmark judgments, a nine-member Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court had held that any law passed by the legislature was liable to be struck down as "unconstitutional" if it destroyed the basic structure theory as enunciated in the Keshavanada Bharati case.
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