Jat Reservation Quota: Court to announce its Verdict today

Team Udayavani, Sep 1, 2017, 12:21 PM IST

Rohtak:  The Punjab and Haryana High court will give its verdict on the much awaited petitions of 10% reservation on Jat communities and five others under the BC(C) communities in Haryana today.

The verdict is being awaited as the provision of reservation to the members of the Jat, Jat Sikh, Muslim-Jat, Bishnoi, Ror and Tyagi communities depends on it. The said act passed by the Haryana Assembly in March, 2016, provided reservation to the communities under a newly created BC (C) category.

These six communities would be entitled to 10 per cent reservation in government services and admission in the educational institutes.

In May 2016, a division bench of the High Court stayed the reservation to these communities after public interest litigation (PIL), filed by Murari Lal Gupta, and challenged the constitutional validity of schedule III (block C) of the Haryana Backward Classes Act 2016.

The agitation for grant of reservation to Jats launched from Sampla township in Rohtak district had turned violent in February last year and 30 persons lost their of lives and damage to property across the state.