The Supreme Court yesterday refused to entertain a Public Interest Litigation seeking reservation in voluntary agencies, organizations and autonomous bodies receiving grants-in-aid from the Union government.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant, Ujjal Bhuyan and Joymalya Bagchi however gave the petitioners liberty to make a comprehensive representation to the government. "We have no reason to doubt that the authorities concerned shall consider the representation in accordance with government policy, if any", it said.

Briefly put, the PIL was filed for implementation of reservation in services of institutions/autonomous bodies/organizations receiving grant-in-aid from the government. The petitioners' grievance was that as far back as on 30.09.1974 and 07.10.1974, executive instructions were

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