Overview
- Elections already notified for 246 municipal councils and 42 nagar panchayats on December 2 will go ahead, with any reservations above 50% kept subject to the case outcome.
- The State Election Commission told the court that 57 of the 288 notified bodies exceed the 50% ceiling and was directed to file a detailed list.
- The bench warned it can annul polls held contrary to law and instructed that any further election notifications must comply with the 50% limit.
- Elections to zilla parishads, municipal corporations and panchayat samitis are yet to be notified as the hearing was adjourned to Friday for further submissions.
- The breaches followed a June 2 letter from the Solicitor General backing a uniform 27% OBC quota, a stance petitioners contest as causing far more than 57 violations, even as the Banthia Commission’s findings and the triple-test requirements remain under scrutiny.