New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said that 30 percent of Maharashtra's population is Maratha and cannot be compared with the marginalized sections of the society. The court made the remarks while banning the implementation of the Act to provide reservation in education and jobs in the diocese for the Maratha community. The Apex court said, at first glance, it was of the view that the Maharashtra government did not say that there was an exceptional situation for the Supreme Court to provide reservation to Marathas outside the limit of a maximum of 50% of the reservation prescribed in the Mandal case in 1992.

A bench of Justices L Nageshwar Rao, Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice S Ravindra Bhat said that appointments to public services and government posts and admission to educational institutions during the academic session 2020-21 will be done without implementing the law providing reservation for the Maratha community. The Apex court said that the implementation of the 2018 law in the state during the implementation of the appeal will cause irreparable damage to the general category candidates.

The Maharashtra government had enacted a reservation law in education and employment in 2018 for socially and economically backward classes in the Maratha community. The Bombay High Court in June last year upheld the law, saying that 16 percent reservation is not justified and instead there should be no more than 12 percent reservation in employment and 13 percent in admission cases.

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