2026:BHC-AS:2908-DB IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Writ Petition No. 4582 of 2010 Bhagyashri Pramod Thakur … Petitioner V/s.

State of Maharashtra and others … Respondents. Mr. R.K.Mendadkar a/w. Priyanka Shaw, Jayshree Mendadkar, Siddhant Sawai, Jagdish Kawale, Prajakta Pashtre Advocate for the Petitioner.

Mr. N.C.Walimbe Addl. G.P. a/w. Mr. V.S.Naimbalkar, AGP for the Respondents-State.

Mr. D.R.Kawale for BMC present.

CORAM : M.S. KARNIK &

S.M. MODAK, JJ.

DATE : 14th January 2026.

Oral Judgment (Per M.S. Karnik, J) :

Heard Mr. Mendadkar, the learned counsel appearing for the Petitioner and Mr. Walimbe, the learned AGP appearing for the Digitally signed by LATA LATA SUNIL SUNIL PANJWANI State.

PANJWANIDate:

2026.01.21

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2. The Petitioner's caste claim as belonging to Thakur Scheduled

tribe is invalidated by the Scrutiny Committee.

3. Our attention is invited to order dated 12^th December 2025

passed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court.

4. Brief background of the matter is as follows: The rejection of the caste claim of the Petitioner by the Caste Scrutiny Committee was challenged by the Petitioner by filing a Writ Petition before this Court, which came to be dis