Kishan Sayanna Nugrawar v. the State of Maharashtra and Another
Case brief
What is this about?
In two writ petitions, the court resolved a substantive grievance regarding the correct nomenclature of tribe certificates issued to petitioners as 'Mahadev Koli' instead of the constitutionally recognized 'Koli Mahadev'. The court directed the Sub Divisional Officer to expeditiously rectify the spelling and dispose of the petitions.
What did the court decide?
Direction to Sub Divisional Officer to issue tribe certificate as 'Koli Mahadev' expeditiously.