Breaking: Big JOLT to Nitish Kumar as Patna HC rejects 65% reservation law | ABP News

The Patna High Court on Thursday set aside Bihar government's two laws that increased the reservation for Backward Classes, Extremely Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes, and Scheduled Tribes from 50% to 65%. 

The high court set aside the Bihar Reservation of Vacancies in Posts and Services (Amendment) Act, 2023 and The Bihar (In admission in Educational Institutions) Reservation (Amendment) Act, 2023 as ultra vires and violative of equality clause under Articles 14, 15 and 16, the Bar and Bench reported.

According to the report, the judgment was delivered by Chief Justice K Vinod Chandran and Justice Harish Kumar on a batch of petitions challenging the amendments brought in by the Bihar legislature in 2023.