India, June 17 -- The Calcutta high court on Tuesday ordered a stay till July 31 on the state's notification on the revised Other Backward Class (OBC) list in which 140 communities were added, lawyers who attended the hearing said.

The court observed that legal procedures and court directives were violated by the state.

Lawyer Bikram Bandopadhyay, who represented petitioners challenging the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government's June 10 notification, said the division bench of justices Rajasekhar Mantha and Tapabrata Chakraborty ordered the interim stay not only on the issuance of the notification but also on issuance of OBC certificates based on the new list.

"The bench raised several questions when we pointed out that a proper survey ...