LUCKNOW, Sept. 1 -- The Uttar Pradesh government has filed a special appeal before the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court challenging the single-judge bench order, which had quashed six Uttar Pradesh government orders (GOs) issued from 2010 to 2015 providing reservation for admission to four state-run medical colleges in Ambedkar Nagar, Kannauj, Jalaun and Saharanpur districts. The government orders had resulted in 79% reservation for admission.

A division bench of justice Rajan Roy and justice Manjive Shukla on Monday directed to list/put up this case (special appeal) on Tuesday (September 2) to enable senior counsel JN Mathur to satisfy this court as to how the judgment passed by the single judge is bad, considering the constitu...