New Delhi: The Supreme Court has dismissed a batch of appeals challenging a Karnataka High Court order that referred to the State Administrative Tribunal (KSAT) a dispute over whether married women can be treated as OBC candidates based on the caste and income certificates of their parents or husbands.

The controversy stems from the 2022 recruitment drive for 15,000 Graduate Primary Teacher posts (Classes 6–8) across 35 educational districts.

A bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi upheld the division bench’s view that the KSAT is the appropriate forum for service-related disputes arising from the recruitment process.

“We are of the considered view that the division bench of the high court rightly set aside the single judge’s order and committed no illegality in relegating

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