The Supreme Court on Thursday has dismissed the Telangana government’s plea challenging the Telangana High Court’s interim order that stayed the State government’s decision to increase Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservation in local body elections in the State to 42 per cent which took the overall reservations in the States’ local bodies to 67 per cent.

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, however, clarified that their decision to dismiss Telangana’s plea will not affect the High Court from deciding the case on merits.

The Telangana government had moved the top court challenging the High Court’s interim stay over its decision to implement 42 per cent reservation for Backwards Classes in local body polls, which was issued following the passing of the Panchayat Raj (Amendme

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