Just about a week after reservation for Jats in Government jobs and admission to educational institutions under BC (C) category was stayed, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday refused to vacate the stay for now.
Haryana government on Tuesday had moved an application seeking vacation of stay on the operation of “Haryana Backward Classes (reservation in services and admission in educational institutions) Act”.
Fixing the next date of hearing on June 6, a Division Bench of the High Court, headed by Justice SS Saron asked the petitioner, Murari lal Gupta, to file a reply to the government's demand for vacating stay. The stay on the reservation for Jats was issued on the petition filed by Gupta, in which he had challenged the reservation provisions.Taking up another plea by Jat leader Hawa Singh Sangwan, High Court also asked the petitioner to file reply. Sangwan, the president of All India Jat Aarakshan Sangharash Samiti had moved a plea for becoming a party in the case on behalf of the community.In its plea, the State of Haryana has said that writ petition was not maintainable being premature at the stage of its filing. The counsel for the state said that the petitioner approached the HC without exhausting the available channel for redressal of his grievances.