The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the further proceedings in the Calcutta High Court in the matter concerning the classification of Other Backward Classes.

The Court was hearing the petition filed by the State of West Bengal against the 2024 High Court order quashing the classification of 77 communities as Other Backward Classes (OBC) given under the WB Backward Classes (Reservation of Vacancies in Services and Posts) Act, 2012.

Today, Sr Advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the state of West Bengal, informed the bench that the proceedings are ongoing in the High Court. It may be noted that the State had published a fresh OBC list, which the High Court stayed in June this year. In July, in another SLP filed by the State, the Supreme Court had stayed the second decision of the Hig

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