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Hyderabad: In a major development, the Telangana High Court on Thursday issued an interim stay on Government Order (GO) MS No. 9, which had allocated 42 percent reservation for Backward Classes (BCs) in the upcoming local body elections. The division bench, headed by Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G.M. Mohiuddin, directed the state government to submit a counter-affidavit within four weeks, while granting petitioners an additional two weeks to file their responses. The next hearing has been scheduled six weeks from now.

The interim order effectively puts a hold on the implementation of the BC reservation and has temporarily suspended the election notification issued by the State Election Commission (SEC) f

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