New Delhi, July 17: The Supreme Court on Friday declined to pass any interim order staying the Andhra Pradesh High Court judgment by which the latter had quashed the GO MS No 15 and 16 of the Andhra Pradesh Backward Classes Welfare Department.The GOs had moved Mudiraj Mutrasi and Tenugollu communities to Group A from Group D of the Backward community.
When the matter came up before a Bench, comprising Chief Justice S H Kapadia, Justice K S Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatanter Kumar, senior advocate T R Andhyariujuna, appearing for the petitioners Palle Ganesh, Y Ravinder, Uppari Narasimhulu, Palepu Chakradhar, Manda Subhash, Y Balakrishna and others sought interim stay of the High Court judgment till the disposal of the petition.
R Santhanakrishnan, appearing for the respondents opposed the interim stay as admissions to colleges have already been over and no purpose would be served by the stay at this juncture.
The contention of the petitioners is that the High Court had quashed the GO on the wrong reasoning and logic that reclassification of the Mudiraj, Mutrasi and Tenugollu from Group D to Group A of the BC community is based not on Anantaraman Commission report and the Backward Commission report dated February 5, 2009, but on the basis of proportion of backward class community.
The court quashed the GOs pointing out that the state government had not considered the impact of change in the population of groups ‘A’ and ‘D’ on the percentage of reservation required to be provided in favour of these groups, indicating that the test of a valid classification had failed.
–Agencies