New Delhi: Supreme Court will hear today a petition filed against the Bombay High Court verdict in the Maratha reservation case. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi will hear the case. The petition filed by an NGO said that the apex court had set a deadline of 50% on reservation. The High Court's decision is against the Supreme Court. In fact, the Bombay High Court had sealed the Maratha reservation.

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The High Court had sealed the government's decision that the government has every right to give reservation to the socially and educationally backward Maratha community by creating a separate category, but a bench of Justices Dwight Ranjit More and Bharti Dangre had given the government a limit of 16 per cent. Ordered to reduce it to 12-13 percent.

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The State Commission for Backward Classes had also recommended 12-13 per cent reservation to the Maratha community. Earlier, the Maharashtra government had filed a caviate application in the apex court in which the state government had said that if any appeal comes against the High Court verdict in the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court should not take any decision without hearing the Maharashtra government's stand.