BENGALURU, Oct. 13 -- The Karnataka High Court on Monday struck down the previous BJP government's decision to increase reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, ruling that the move breached the 50% constitutional ceiling and raised the state's overall quota to 56%. A division bench of Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice K S Hemalekha set aside the enhanced quotas introduced by the government led by former chief minister Basavaraj Bommai, which raised the SC quota from 15% to 17% and the ST quota from 3% to 7%. The increases were recommended by a commission headed by Justice H N Nagamohan Das. The Bommai government approved them in October 2022 and subsequently enacted legislation to implement the changes. With the existin...