The Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court today stayed the admission of a PIL challenging implementation of 50% reservation in private engineering colleges in Uttar Pradesh till September 3.

The Bench of Justice Pradeep Kant and Justice Rituraj Awasthi passed the order on a petition filed by Ajay Swaroop and others.

The state government had also presented a decree in the case before the Bench on July 22.

The petitioner had said that the state government was interfering by issuing a decree against private technical colleges and other private education institutions in the state.

The petition also added that the state government had issued the decree on July 22 and even implemented 50% reservation despite an adjournment by the High Court and started counseling on July 26.

UPTU registrar US Tomar was present in the court in person and said he would not give admission till September.

The court directed against giving admission on the basis of the counseling held after the hearing in the matter.

UNI