Hyderabad, Sept. 28 -- A day after the Telangana government issued an order providing 42% reservations to the other backward classes (OBCs) in the local bodies, the state high court on Saturday questioned the propriety of issuing an administrative order to implement the reservations, when the bill passed by the state assembly is pending with governor for approval, people familiar with the matter said.

A division bench of the state high court comprising Justice S Abhinand Kumar and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy directed that the state government should proceed strictly in accordance with the law to provide reservations to the OBCs.

The bench, which took up the hearing on a lunch motion petition filed by a social activist Buttenagari Madhava R...