Published on : 16 Oct 2025, 7:35 am 4 min read

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea challenging a Telangana High Court order that stayed the State government’s decision to raise Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservation in municipalities and panchayats to 42 per cent [ The State of Telangana vs Buttemgari Madhava Reddy ].

The State's move, made ahead of elections to such local bodies, effectively took total reservations (OBC, SC, ST etc.) to 67 per cent.

On October 9, a Division Bench of the Telangana High Court stayed this reservation hike while considering a batch of petitions filed on the issue.

A Supreme Court Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta today refused to interfere with the High Court's interim order, adding that the local electio

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