Mumbai, March 15 -- Petitioners supporting the 16% Maratha quota told the Bombay high court (HC) that the 50% cap on reservation was not part of the basic structure of the Constitution and hence, the state was not wrong in breaching it. They argued that Article 342A - which grants exclusive powers to the President to notify a backward class - does not take away the right of the state to grant reservation to social and economic backward classes (SEBC) as then, all previous quotas for other backward classes (OBC) in the state list would become void....