Shankar S/O Raghunath Devre (Patil) vs State of Maharashtra

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2018 Supreme(SC) 1338

RANJAN GOGOI, NAVIN SINHA, K.M.JOSEPH
Shankar S/O Raghunath Devre (Patil) – Appellant
Versus
State of Maharashtra – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
SLP© 29874-75/16, Mr. Sudhanshu S. Choudhari, AOR, 6027/17, 29453/17 Ms. Surabhi Guleria, Adv, Mr. Shakul R. Ghatole, Adv, SLP© 29967/16, 31479/16, Mr. Sandeep S. Deshmukh, Adv, 6037/17,6034/17,6036/17, Mr. Vasim Siddiqui, Adv, 6035/17,6222/17,6984/17, Mr. Nar Hari Singh, AOR, SLP© 1326-27/17,13632/17, 25849/17, Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR, Ms. Monica Hasija, Adv, Mr. Anurag Gharote, Adv, SLP©6040/17, Mr. Mayank Pandey, AOR, Mr. Rhythm B., Adv, SLP©6041/17, Mr. Sanjay Kharde, Adv, Mr. Sunil Kumar Verma, AOR, SLP©6436/17, 6452/17, Mr. Anand Landge, Adv, Mr. Gopal Balwant Sathe, AOR, SLP©15490/17, Mr. M. Y. Deshmukh, AOR, Mr. Shakti Pandey, Adv, SLP©8896-97/17,10146/17, 9754/18, Mr. Amol Nirmalkumar Suryawanshi, AOR, SLP©9479/17,9484/17, 9486/17, for M/S. S.M. Jadhav And Company, AOR, SLP©13091/17, Mr. Kailas B. Autade, Adv, Mr. Sachin Patil, AOR, SLP©36551/17 Mr. Anand Landge, Adv, Mr. Jay Kishor Singh, AOR, SLP©10472/18 & rr in SLP© 29874-75/16, Mr. Dilip Annasaheb Taur, AOR, Ms. Heena Khan, Adv, SLP©12668/18, Mr. Ashutosh Dubey, AOR, Mr. Rajendra, Adv, Ms. Rajshri Dubey, Adv, Mr. Abhishek Chauhan, Adv, Mr. V.S. Rawat, Adv, Mr. Sushil Pandey, Adv, Ms. Kuljit Kaur, Adv, SLP©19084/18 Mr. Kishor Lambat, Adv, Mr. R.R. Deshpande, Adv, Mr. Sachin Pahwa, Adv, for M/S. Lambat And Associates, AOR, Mr. Yogesh K. Ahirrao, Adv, Ms. Manju Jetley, AOR, Election Comm. Mr. Makarand D. Adkar, Adv, Mr. Vijay Kumar, Adv, Ms. Aparna Jha, AOR, Ms. Laxmi Shashtri, Adv, Mr. A. N. Arora, AOR, Bhor Municipal Council Mr. Samrat Shinde, Adv, Mr. Rishi Jain, AOR, Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR, Ms. Deepa M. Kulkarni, Adv, Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR, Mr. Pravin Satale, Adv, Mr. Rajiv Shankar Dvivedi, AOR, Mr. Arvind S. Avhad, AOR, Ms. Rukhmini S. Bobde, Adv, Mr. Kumar Shashank, Adv, Mr. Nivesh Kumar, Adv, Mr. Vishal Prasad, Adv, Mr. Shirish K. Deshpande, Adv, Mr. Mohit Gautam, Adv, Mr. Sumeer Kumar Shrivastava, Adv, Mrs. K.N. Sinha, Adv, Dr. S.K. Verma, Adv.

ORDER :

1. Permission to file special leave petition(s) is granted.

2. Heard the learned counsels for the parties and perused the relevant material.

3. Delay condoned.

4. The following questions were referred for the opinion of a full Bench of the High Court of Bombay :

(i) Whether the time limit prescribed u/s 9A of the Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Townships Act, 1965, for submission of caste validity certificate by elected councilor is mandatory in nature ?
(ii) Whether the failure on the part of person elected as Councilor to produce the caste validity certificate within the period of six months from the date on which he was declared elected, irrespective of facts and circumstances and eventuality beyond the control of such person to produce validity certificate would automatically result into termination of his election with retrospective effect?
(iii) Whether the validation of caste claim of elected Councilor by the Scrutiny Committee beyond the prescribed period would automatically result into termination of such Councilor with retrospective operation ?

5. The same were answered against the petitioner(s) by holding the provisions of Section 9A of th

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2018 Supreme(SC) 1338

RANJAN GOGOI, NAVIN SINHA, K.M.JOSEPHShankar S/O Raghunath Devre (Patil) – AppellantVersusState of Maharashtra – Respondent

RANJAN GOGOI, NAVIN SINHA, K.M.JOSEPH
Shankar S/O Raghunath Devre (Patil) – Appellant
Versus
State of Maharashtra – Respondent