, Tuesday, August 30, 2011: The Supreme Court had agreed to examine the validity of the Kerala government’s decision to extend 10 per cent reservation for economically backward class students of the forward community. A bench of justices D K Jain and Asok Kumar Ganguly, while admitting the petition filed by three organizations, said “let the hearing be expedited.” The bench sought Kerala government’s response on the petition even though the state counsel Ramesh Babu submitted the new Congress-led UDF Ministry supported the reservation extended by the previous LDF Government.
