Overview

• The court’s interim order suspends all notifications issued between May 8 and June 13 on new OBC-A and OBC-B categories, freezing a portal for certificate applications and halting college admissions and job recruitments
• Justices Tapabrata Chakraborty and Rajasekhar Mantha criticised the state for bypassing assembly approval and shifting its legal basis between two Reservation Acts
• A fresh survey ordered by the Supreme Court had identified 140 communities—80 Muslim and 60 non-Muslim—to boost Bengal’s OBC quota from 7% to 17%
• Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee directed her cabinet to counter BJP-led disinformation over the list even as Opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari praised the stay as a check on political appeasement
• The notification was issued while the matter awaited a Supreme Court hearing, positioning the state to contest the high court’s stay at the apex level