Bhopal, Oct. 9 -- The Madhya Pradesh High Court has ruled that Other Backward Classes (OBCs) are entitled to 14 per cent reservation in state services, declining to uphold the increase to 27 per cent in the absence of extraordinary circumstances to justify exceeding the 50 per cent reservation ceiling.

In the long-standing OBC reservation case in the state, the High Court on Friday pronounced a detailed judgment examining the state's decision to increase OBC reservation from 14 per cent to 27 per cent through Ordinance No. 2/2019, which came into effect in March, 2019.

"MP Ordinance No.2 of 2019 as well as the Amendment Act, 2019 prescribed a percentage of reservation from 14% to 27% in the domain of public services. However, on the bas...