Hearing a plea seeking 10% reservation based on Sachar Committee findings, the Court asked how it could determine internal Muslim backwardness without detailed studies, and scheduled further consideration alongside related constitutional questions in April 2026.
The report published by NDTV was rife with inaccuracies and yet was exploited by the usual culprits to attack the Hindu community under the pretext of 'caste justice'. The Dalit groom was subjected to an attack but the fact is that it was neither due to his caste nor carried out by general category Hindus. It was a matter of personal enmity as confirmed by the police.
The case involves allegations of police involvement, a symbolic marriage performed by Aanchal after the killing, and a wave of misleading caste narratives online that ignored her own clarification about their relationship and her family’s actual community background.
Viral claims that the MP government’s affidavit attacked Hindu texts were dismissed, with the state stressing it seeks 27% OBC quota, unlike the 35% suggested in the Congress-era report now resurfacing in judicial records.
Officials said Manorama Khedkar had helped her husband and his bodyguard to escape from their family bungalow in Pune and set ferocious dogs on a police team.
The plea stated that the present guidelines, in this regard, only provide for the issuance of OBC certificates by considering the OBC certificate through a paternal lineage.
The Calcutta High Court’s stay exposes how West Bengal’s revised OBC list risks turning caste-based affirmative action into a vehicle for religious appeasement.