2025:BHC-AS:35780-DB

RAMESHWAR

LAXMAN DILWALE

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

RAMESHWAR

LAXMAN DILWALE

Date: 2025.08.20

12:05:13 +0530 WRIT PETITION NO.12621 OF 2023

Nitin Prakash Pund & Ors. .. Petitioners

Vs.

The State of Maharashtra & Ors. .. Respondents

Mr. Danish Patel i/b. Ms. Vaishali Suryawanshi, for the Petitioners.

Mr. Siddheshwar Kalel, AGP for Respondent Nos.1 to 3-State.

CORAM : SHREE CHANDRASHEKHAR &

MANJUSHA DESHPANDE, JJ. DATE : 1st AUGUST 2025

Per, Shree Chandrashekhar, J. :

The petitioners are claiming that they belong to the Scheduled Tribe “Koli

Mahadev”. They are aggrieved by the order dated 14^th June 2022 by which the Sub-Divisional Officer of Vita within the district of Sangli dismissed the application for Caste Certificate to the petitioner nos.2 and 3 who are the sons of the petitioner no.1 on the ground that they did not furnish any pre-1950 document and their application for the Caste Certificate for the purpose of education was not supported by any Caste Validity Certificate of their family members. The Appeal moved by the petitioners before the Scheduled Tribes Caste Scrutiny Committee was also rejected by an order dated 9^th February 2023 observing that it was