Madhya Pradesh High Court strikes down 2019 law raising OBC quota to 27%

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:07:00 +0530

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday, 9 October 2026, struck down a 2019 State law that had raised reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in public services from 14% to 27%. A Division Bench of Justices Anand Pathak and Vinay Saraf in Jabalpur held the amendment unconstitutional in a 159-page order, according to The Hindu and The Indian Express. The judgment text was not available to us; this report relies on those two outlets’ accounts of it.

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Madhya Pradesh High Court strikes down 2019 law raising OBC quota to 27%