India, Sept. 11 -- A city-based lawyer, Vinit Dhotre, has challenged the state's September 2 government resolution (GR), which stipulates granting Kunbi caste certificates to eligible Marathas, which will enable them to get reservation under OBC category, before the Bombay High Court (HC) on Wednesday.

In his public interest litigation (PIL) Dhotre has claimed that the move is not only violative of the right to equality for OBCs and the Indra Sawhney judgment (of November 1992, in which the apex court held that merit is the rule and reservation to a caste is an exception and therefore total reservation in a state cannot exceed 50% and laid down a cap on the extent of total reservation), but also lacks legislative competence under the Con...