DSGMC, 4 DU colleges’ application dismissed

‘The petitioners shall be bound to implement the reservation policy of the government’ The colleges argued that they were minority institutions NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed an application filed by the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee and four colleges of Delhi University managed by it seeking exemption from giving 27 per cent reservation in admission to Other Backward Classes’ candidates in under-graduate courses on the ground that they being minority institutions were statutorily protected from implementing it. The petitioners—DSGMC, Shri Guru Govind Singh College of Commerce, Mata Sundri College for Women, Shri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College and Shri Guru Nanak Dev P.G. College—had filed the application seeking a stay on a direction by the University asking them to implement the reservation... [read full story]