Summary:
The Bombay High Court will continue to hear arguments on Thursday in the final hearing into petitions challenging the state government’s decision to provide 16 per cent reservation to the Maratha community. Aney had continued the arguments on the constitutional validity as well as on the reservation in the educational institutions. Sancheti is likely to argue on Thursday and Friday, following which the state will argue. Last week, senior counsels Arvind Datar and Shrihari Aney and advocate Gunratan Sadavarte had argued for three days. Thus, although the Marathas are actually educationally backward, providing for reservation in education is unrelated with the object of the Act,” Aney said..