Supreme Court on Reservation: The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave a big decision regarding reservation. The country’s highest court cancelled the decision of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, which ordered not to give admission to the meritorious students taking advantage of reservation on general category seats. The Supreme Court said in its decision that if the meritorious students of Other Backward Classes (OBC), Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) category are entitled to get admission on general category seats on the basis of their merit, then they should not get admission on reservation seats.
A bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Vishwanathan gave this decision while accepting the appeal filed by Ram Naresh alias Rinku Kushwaha and others against the decision of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. The bench said that if students of OBC, SC and ST categories are entitled to get admission in the unreserved i.e. general category on the basis of their merit, then they should get admission only on unreserved seats.
Reference to old case
The Supreme Court has given this decision relying on its earlier decision passed in the case of Saurav Yadav and others vs. Government of Uttar Pradesh. This case is related to MBBS admission in medical colleges in Madhya Pradesh, in which meritorious students of reserved category were denied admission in general category.
What is the whole matter?
Let us tell you that this matter is related to admission to MBBS seats in Madhya Pradesh. 5% of the total seats were reserved for government school (GS) students. Many seats remained vacant as per Rule 2 (G) of Madhya Pradesh Education Admission Rules 2018. The seats were shifted from GS-UR category to Open category.
The petition prayed that meritorious students of reserved category who have studied in government schools should be given admission in MBBS under unreserved category government school quota. The petitioners had approached the High Court against not giving admission in MBBS on general seats to meritorious students who passed out from government schools. Here their petition was rejected. However, the Supreme Court has ruled in their favour.