Pushkaraj Shashikant Nagtilak U/G of Father Shashikant Sopan Nagtilak v. the State of Maharashtra through Its Secretary and Another
Tribe claim – 'Thakar' Scheduled Tribe
Case brief
What is this about?
Writ Petition No. 2196 of 2026, High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Bench at Aurangabad, decided 26.02.2026 (Coram: Sandipkumar C. More & Abasaheb D. Shinde, JJ.). Petitioner sought expeditious disposal of his pending 'Thakar' Scheduled Tribe claim before respondent No.2 – Scrutiny Committee, needing a validity certificate for MH-CET 2026. Court directed the Scrutiny Committee to decide the tribe claim preferably by end of June 2026 and disposed of the writ petition. Keywords: tribe claim validity, Thakar Scheduled Tribe, Maharashtra Scrutiny Committee, MH-CET 2026, expeditious disposal.
What did the court decide?
Direction to respondent No.2 – Scrutiny Committee to decide the petitioner's tribe claim as expeditiously as possible and preferably by the end of June 2026. ¶15