India, Nov. 6 -- The Supreme Court on Friday clarified that its March 11 judgment, which said Other Backward Classes (OBC) candidates cannot be excluded from reservation benefits solely based on their parents' salary income, will not apply to past appointments after the government opposed the retrospective operation.

It said that the judgment was passed in favour of the parties who approached it. Regarding retrospective operation, a bench of Justices PS Narasimha and R Mahadevan said the decided ratio will not lead to reopening of appointments already made.

The court said the government is at liberty to have its own policy. It held that its judgment will govern service allocation under the 2025 civil services examination, since the proc...