New Delhi, Nov. 7 -- The Supreme Court on Friday held that its March 11 decision which said that the income of parents cannot be the sole criterion for their children being excluded from other backward class (OBC) reservation will not be a ground to reopen past appointments, giving relief to the Centre which had opposed retrospective operation of the judgment. Disposing of an application filed by Centre on whether the law decided by this judgment will reopen OBC selections made over the past years, the court said that the application was based on an "erroneous assumption" as it only applied to the persons who were litigating the case before the court. The bench of justices PS Narasimha and R Mahadevan said, "The judgment dated March 11, 2026 determines the rights of the parties before this court.The ratio laid down in the judgment shall not, by itself, furnish a ground for reopening selections or appointments already concluded prior to the judgment." The court granted a further period of two months for the Centre to implement its judgment in favour of the litigants in the case. "These directions are to be construed only in the context of the parties and applications dealt with in the judgment. The Government may, accordingly, accommodate the parties before this court who otherwise fulfil the requisite eligibility conditions," it said....