Karnataka Cabinet to hold special meeting on SC internal reservation issue on Apr 24
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has convened a special Cabinet meeting on April 24 to discuss the pending issue of internal reservation among Scheduled Castes, which has emerged as a major challenge for the state administration.
The meeting, to be chaired by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, will be held at 2 pm at Vidhana Soudha.
The issue has placed the government in a difficult position due to differences between Left-Hand and Right-Hand Scheduled Caste communities over internal reservation.
An earlier Cabinet meeting had been called to discuss the matter, but it was postponed in view of the by-elections in Davanagere and Bagalkot constituencies.
Following directions from the Supreme Court of India, discussions are now centred on providing internal reservation through classification of the existing 15 per cent Scheduled Caste quota into Categories A, B and C.
The special Cabinet meeting is expected to deliberate on the matter and decide the government’s next course of action.
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NEET student hangs self in Rajasthan's Sikar
Jaipur (PTI): A student preparing for the NEET examination allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in a rented room in Rajasthan's Sikar on Friday, police said.
According to the police, the student allegedly hanged himself from a ceiling fan using his sister's scarf while one sister was attending coaching classes and the other was in the bathroom.
He had appeared in the NEET UG exam 2026, which was cancelled due to paper leak, they said.
Udyog Nagar SHO Rajesh Kumar said that the deceased, identified as Pradeep Meghwal, was a resident of Kanika ki Dhani village in Jhunjhunu's Gudha Gaudji area.
He had been living in a rented room in Sikar's Jaldhari Nagar area with his two sisters while preparing for NEET over the last three years.
His elder sister later found him hanging and informed the landlord and police after bringing him down, officials said.
The SHO said the body was kept at SK Hospital mortuary, and a postmortem had not been conducted.
The student's father, Rajesh Kumar Meghwal, told police that Pradeep's NEET examination had gone well and the family was expecting him to score around 650 marks.
Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot expressed grief over the incident and linked it to anxiety among students after reports of irregularities and paper leaks in NEET 2026.
Pilot said repeated paper leak incidents and cancellation of examinations were affecting students' mental health and demanded a time-bound investigation and strict action against those responsible.
