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Court sets aside GO on Mudiraj community

Legal Correspondent

HYDERABAD: A Division Bench of the High Court comprising Justice G. Raghuram and Justice Ramesh Ranganathan on Tuesday set aside the GO issued by the government transferring the Mudiraj community from D group to A of Backward Classes.

GO 15 challenged

The Bench was allowing the writ petitions filed by Rajaka Hakkula Sangham and others.

They were challenging the GO 15 issued by the government.

The BC communities in the State have been classified into ABCD categories and quota fixed for each group for the purpose of reservation in employment and education.

The Muslims have been declared as ‘E’ category and final judgment in cases filed challenging this is pending with the seven judge Bench of the High Court.

Recently the government had ordered that Mudiraj community which is in D group be treated as one of the groups in A category. This was challenged.

‘Large group’

The petitioners contended that numerically large group which is comparatively powerful will take away all the reservations meant for the BC castes in A group.

The Bench speaking through Justice Ramesh Ranaganathan in a 25-page judgment found fault with the exercise taken up before issuance of the GO.

The court declared that there was no application of mind regarding comparative backwardness.

‘No material’

The Bench specifically referred to Anantharaman Commission which had given a final shape to the categorisation of the BC groups and said that there is no material to deviate from this report.

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