The Supreme Court Tuesday said the suggestions of the commission appointed by the Maharashtra government on grant of OBC reservation in local bodies polls cannot be accommodated for the areas for which the election programme has already been notified. A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and J B Pardiwala said it will not stop the poll process till it reaches its logical end and interfere only where it has not commenced.

"Issuance of notification itself is commencement of election. Dates can be altered but elections cannot be retrieved by the State Election Commission. Once the nomination process starts we cannot interdict. There is a constitutional bar," the bench observed. At the outset, counsel for one of the parties sought adjournment which was opposed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta appearing for Maharashtra.