SC fixes June 12 for quota hearing

The Judges noted: ‘‘We are happy to note that all medical services have been restored and therefore no further order needs to be passed.’’ They observed that granting an interim stay of the proposed reservation at this stage would mean deciding the petition before it had been heard.

The Bench took on record the Centre’s memorandum that the strike against the OBC quota had been withdrawn. The constitutionality of the proposed law, providing 27 per cent reservation to OBCs and the Constitutional amendment of Article 15 (5) itself will come to a larger debate after eight weeks, when the Centre files its replies on the three issues framed by the apex court — the basis of the norms for fixing OBCs; the rationale behind fixing it; and modalities of implementing the policy and its basis.