On July 22, the state government issued an order claiming that all private engineering colleges had agreed to abide by the state's reservation policy.

The participation of representatives of all private engineering colleges at a meeting convened by the U.P. Technical University Nov 28, 2008 was construed by the state government as their 'consent' to the proposal.

The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court took a very serious view of the government's claim and termed it as distortion and violation of the apex court's order.