NEW DELHI, Sept. 2 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider the Centre's plea seeking clarification on the applicability of its March 11 judgement on OBC creamy-layer criteria on candidates of the Civil Services Examination (CSE) 2025.
A bench of Justices PS Narasimha and R Mahadevan issued notice on the Centre's plea and asked the parties to file their responses by September 17.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, submitted that there are serious practical difficulties in implementing the March 11 decision this year as candidates are waiting for their posting and will be affected.
Senior advocates Sanjay Hegde and P Wilson, appearing for some of the original petitioners, said that they have a preliminary ...