Shri. Prashant Shivajirao Sanap v. the State of Maharashtra Thru Secretary, Marketing and Textiles Dept. and Ors.
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Bombay HC, W.P. No. 5516 of 2023 (with I.A. No. 1665 of 2024), decided 5th March 2026, Coram: Bharati Dangre & Manjusha Deshpande JJ (judgment per Dangre J). Petitioner Prashant Shivajirao Sanap v. State of Maharashtra & ors (AGP M.M. Pable; Sr. Adv. Atul Damle). Subject: notice dated 29/3/2023 by Range Forest Officer, Kasare treating Survey No. 136/42, village Pokhari, Taluka Nandgaon, District Nashik as 'reserved forest' and stopping construction of Agro Private Market; Forest Conservation Act, 1927; reservation notification 9/8/1886 (incl. Survey No.47); de-reservation notification 16/6/1910 (9.3 acres 4 gunthas, effective 19/7/1910); Mutation Entry No.1146 dated 11/3/2014; registered sale deed 31/1/2014; predecessor Babu Murlidhar Sonar; conditional grant (no transfer/encumbrance, revocation by Collector). Held: nature-of-land question remitted to competent Forest Department officer to decide notice after hearing petitioner and juxtaposing documents, within three months; interim stay (DB order dated 3/4/2023) continued till final decision; petitioner barred from changing land nature or creating third-party interest/encumbrance. Petition and IA disposed of. No precedents cited.