The Supreme Court has recently made it clear that even the differently abled OBC candidates will only get seven and not 10 attempts to appear in the civil services examination - like other OBC candidates. In other words, a physically challenged candidate cannot seek preference over other disabled candidates on the ground of belonging to Other Backward Caste (OBC) category. A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Ashok Bhushan said that all differently abled candidates, whether belonging to the general category or OBC category, will get seven attempts in the civil services examination in accordance with the government's policy of 2007. The apex court shot down an argument by the OBC candidates that it would amount to treating unequal as equals if physically handicapped candidates of general category and such candidates under the OBC category are permitted equal attempts..