Allahabad High Court has reserved its verdict on the UP Govt’s appeal challenging a single judge’s order that quashed government directives allocating over 79% reserved seats in four medical colleges at Ambedkar Nagar, Kannauj, Jalaun, and Saharanpur.
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court reserved its decision regarding the special appeal filed by the Uttar Pradesh government.
This appeal challenges a previous judgment by a single judge that annulled government orders that allocated over 79 percent of seats for reserved categories in government medical colleges located in Ambedkar Nagar, Kannauj, Jalaun, and Saharanpur.
The division bench is set to deliver its ruling on September 4.
Justices Rajan Roy and Manjeev Shukla presided over the case brought forth by the state’s Medical Education Department.
The UP government enlisted a team of specialized private attorneys, including senior advocates J.N. Mathur and Sanjay Bhasin, along with advocate Syed Mohammad Haider Rizvi, to argue for the restoration of the reservation quota, despite having ten additional advocates general available in the Lucknow bench.
The attorneys argued that the Supreme Court had allowed a reservation quota exceeding 50 percent in the Indira Sahni case.
They contended that the single judge’s decision to set-aside “the reservation was done in an illegal manner.”
In response to a writ petition filed by NEET candidate Sabra Ahmad, the single judge noted that the petitioner scored 523 marks in the NEET-2025 exam, achieving an all-India rank of 29,061.
The single judge also observed that the government orders issued on various dates including January 20, 2010, February 21, 2011, July 13, 2011, July 19, 2012, July 17, 2013, and June 13, 2015 had raised the reservation cap in these medical colleges to over 79 percent, which directly contravened the established principle of maintaining a maximum reservation limit of 50 percent.
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The single bench noted that the total number of seats in these medical colleges was 85 for the state government quota, with only seven seats allocated for the unreserved category.
In its ruling, the single bench stated that the limit of 50 percent for reservations could not be exceeded merely by adhering to the rules.
The state government has since filed a special appeal against this judgment before the two-judge bench.
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