Tanvi Shyam Lakhmawar through Power of Attorney Holder Shyam Dattram Lakhmawar v. the State of Maharashtra through Its Secretary and Another
Case brief
What is this about?
Tanvi Shyam Lakhmawar v. State of Maharashtra, WRIT PETITION NO. 3656 OF 2024, High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Bench at Aurangabad, decided 25 June 2024, coram Mangesh S. Patil and Shailesh P. Brahme, JJ. Keywords: tribe certificate; certificate of validity; 'Mannervarlu'; Scrutiny Committee; Maharashtra Act No.XXIII of 2001; confiscation and cancellation of tribe certificate; family validity certificates (father Sham, order of 1993; Nagesh, Division Bench order 06.03.1991); impermissibility of circumventing unchallenged High Court orders; review of validity orders; coordinate bench observations in Atharva Nagesh Lakhmawar, Writ Petition No.273/2022 and Niraj Nagesh Lakhmawar, Writ Petition No.14805/2021; petition allowed partly; impugned order quashed and set aside; conditional issuance of validity certificate subject to review and reopened matters.
What did the court decide?
Writ Petition allowed partly; impugned order of the Scrutiny Committee quashed and set aside; respondent/Scrutiny Committee directed to immediately issue a certificate of validity of 'Mannervarlu' to the petitioner, subject to the final outcome of any review of the orders of this Court and the final decision in the matters which the Committee intends to reopen in respect of the validity holders.