The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave the state government 7 days to take concrete steps and serve a notice to Respondent No. 12 in the 5% Muslim Reservation Case.
The 5-member Apex Court Bench stated that the notice be issued and that it should be returnable in 16 weeks.
The bench, headed by Chief Justice G S Singhivi, is hearing the Muslim Reservation Case. The bench has clubbed the 5% reservations and 4% reservations that were accorded to Backward Muslim Communities by the state government back in 2004 and 2006 respectively.
The state government and the state unit of the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind have
filed a writ appeal against the judgment of the AP High Court.
Hafiz Peer Shabbir Ahmed, MLC and president state unit of the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, said that the organization has prepared a separate survey of Muslim backward classes, in support of the reservations.
General Secretary of the Organisation Hafiz Peer Khaleeq Ahmed Saber is currently in New Delhi to coordinate with senior counsels Shakeel Ahmed Syed and Syed Saud Ahmed. He stated that the YSR government had announced a 5% reservation for the members of the Muslim community as part of his party's election promise in 2004.
When these reservations were quashed by the court of law, the state government had then announced 4% reservations for the community in 2006.
Courtesy: INN