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. P8...