In the Maharashtra local body elections matter , the Supreme Court today orally expressed that total reservation was not permitted by it to exceed 50 percent and that the state authorities seemingly misconstrued its order.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi heard the matter.

Underlining that the Court did not pass an order permitting reservation to exceed 50%, Justice Kant said during the hearing,

"We are very clear about this part. When we said elections are to be conducted as per existing law, the law was very clear. The judgement of this Court that was holding the field clearly said that reservation cannot exceed 50%. One of the reasons given by this court was that this exercise of identifying was not undertaken. For that, Banthia Commission was constituted. Commi

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