The Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court stayed the admission of a PIL challenging implementation of 50% reservation in private engineering colleges in Uttar Pradesh till September 3.
The Bench of Justice Pradeep Kant and Justice Rituraj Awasthi passed the order on a petition filed by Ajay Swaroop and others. The state government had also presented a decree in the case before the Bench on July 22.
The petitioner had said that the state government was interfering by issuing a decree against private technical colleges and other private education institutions in the state.