Overview
- The state told the Bombay High Court that the 2014 ordinance granting a 5% quota to specified Muslim groups expired that December and left no enforceable right.
- Officials said the February 17 government resolution only canceled 2014 instructions and halted Special Backward Category‑A certificates, so it did not scrap a lawful quota.
- The government asked the court to dismiss the plea as misconceived and to impose exemplary costs on petitioner Syed Ejaz Abbas Naqvi.
- Naqvi’s petition calls the move discriminatory and says the state gave no quantifiable data to justify it, with a hearing listed for May 4 before Justices R. I. Chagla and Advait Sethna.
- The state noted a High Court order on November 14, 2014 had already stayed use of the quota in private unaided colleges and in public jobs, and it said admissions and hires made between July 9 and December 23, 2014 remain protected.