By the Court.—Competing claims of reservation, the Other Backward Classes who are the petitioners and the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes whose cause is represented by the respondent-Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University and defended by the intervenors of the same category, has brought forth at the forefront another issue of social dimension, namely the right to get admitted against a fixed reserve quota in an educational institution imparting higher education.

2. Writ Petition No. 9643 (MB) of 2016 is by an association arrayed as petitioner No. 1 professing to espouse the cause of students aspiring to seek admission in the respondent-university by way of reservation under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category. The petitioner Nos. 2 to 15 claim themselves to be of the Other Backward Classes and urge that 27% quota reserving seats for admission in the respondent-Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University be implemented and to that extent, provisions of Clause 9 of Chapter VII of the First Academic Ordinances of the University be declared as ultra vires the provisions of