In a landmark judgment in the case of Dr Jishri Laxmnarao Patil, a two-judge Bench of Bombay High Court has upheld Maratha reservation in Maharashtra. Backward or notThe Mandal Commission, which listed 128 communities as backward, identified Marathas as ‘forward’. Quantifiable dataIn 2017, a reference was made to the Maharashtra Backward Class Commission. The court also discussed at length through comparative tabular analysis why denial of Backward Class status to Marathas by earlier Commissions was wrong. This portion of the High Court judgment will be challenged in the Supreme Court.

Source: Indian Express June 30, 2019 19:07 UTC