JUDGMENT

A.M.KHANWILKAR, J.

1. This Special Leave Petition emanates from the judgment and order dated 16.01.2017 passed by the High Court of Bombay at Aurangabad in Writ Petition No.11214 of 2016. The said writ petition was filed for the following reliefs:

“18. The petitioners therefore pray that your lordship will be pleased to:

(A) Call for record and proceedings of the case.

(B) Hold and declare that, the impugned order dated 08.11.2016 passed by respondent No.3 Divisional Commissioner, Nashik Division, Nashik, thereby rejecting the objection raised by the petitioner No.2 for dereserving the Chande-Kasare Block, Tq. Kopergaon, Dist. Ahmednagar, is illegal, arbitrary and violative of Article 14 & 21 of the constitution of India hence liable to be quashed and set aside.

(C) Issue writ of mandamus, or any other appropriate writ, order or directions in the nature of writ of mandamus directing the respondent No.2 to 4 to take necessary steps to reserve the Chande-Kasare Block, Tq. Kopergaon, Dist. Ahmednagar for backward class of citizen category instead of other backward class category (Women) and to take consequential steps from conducting the elections for the said block according