The Calcutta Hight Court, hearing a public interest litigation challenging portions of the West Bengal Backward Classes (Other than Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) (Reservation of Vacancies in Services and Posts) Act, 2012, in its order, has invalidated all Other Backward Classes (OBC) certificates issued by the West Bengal government after 2010, and has ordered the cancellation of the caste status bestowed upon 77 communities, citing the illegal nature of the selection process. The division bench of Justices Tapabrata Chakraborty and Rajasekhar Mantha struck down portions of the Act, including Section 16, “since it empowers the State executive to amend any schedule of the Act of 2012 including Schedule I, along with the second part of Section 2(h), and Section 5(a) which distributed reservation percentages of 10% and 7% to the sub-classified categories.