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New Delhi, July 16 - The Supreme Court Monday restrained the Symbiosis International University, a private educational institute, from admitting other backward classes (OBC) students as per the government's law on quota for them in centrally-funded educational institutions.
A bench of Justices B.N. Agarwal and P.P. Naolekar was hearing a petition by the Youth for Equality, challenging reservation of the seats by the private institute for the OBC students.
The students' body, which had spearheaded last year the agitation against the law for 27 percent reservation for OBC students in centrally funded higher educational institutions, argued in the petition that a private institute cannot provide for reservation when the legality of the law was being examined by the apex court.
Starting this academic year, Pune's Symbiosis International University had begun admitting OBC students in its 13 institutes, arguing that the Supreme Court stay on the law passed by the government was applicable to the government's higher educational institutions and not for private educational institutions.
Symbiosis University director S.B. Mazumdar had been maintaining that as per the provisions of the suspended law, it would provide seven percent reservations this year, 13 percent next year and 27 percent by the third year.
The petition against Symbiosis will now be heard Tuesday along with a bunch of other petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006.
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