2022:BHC-AS:6535-DB JPP IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 3254 OF 2021 Kasturi Sushma Khandekar … Petitioner V/s.

State of Maharashtra and Ors. ... Respondents Mr. Makrand Kale a/w. Mr. S.R. Ghanavat for the Petitioner Mr. N.C. Walimbe, AGP for the Respondent - State CORAM : SUNIL B. SHUKRE &

G.A. SANAP, JJ.

DATE : 22 MARCH 2022 Oral Judgment (Per Sunil Shukre, J.) :-

Heard the learned Counsel for the parties.

2. Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. Taken up for final disposal by consent of parties.

3. The main issue involved in this Petition is about which of the two social status, one that of the father and the other that of the mother could be claimed by the Petitioner. The answer to the question would depend upon the evidence regarding the manner in which and by whom the Petitioner has been reared.

4. In the present case, on going through the vigilance report and also the document relating to school entry, one can at once say that the Petitioner has been almost entirely brought up by her mother who belongs to Mahar Scheduled Caste. The mother and the father of the Petitioner were married on 25 April 1993 but soon after the marria