Mansi Parashuram Nagdarwad vs the State of Maharashtra through Its Secretary and Another — Bombay HC (2026) — LawSathi Research

Mansi Parashuram Nagdarwad vs the State of Maharashtra through Its Secretary and Another — Bombay HC (2026) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

Impugned order dated 05.03.2025 of respondent No.2/Scrutiny Committee invalidating the petitioner's 'Koli Mahadev' Scheduled Tribe tribe claim quashed and set aside; Committee directed to issue tribe validity certificate of belonging to 'Koli Mahadev' Scheduled Tribe to the petitioner, conterminous with the validity certificates relied upon and subject to the final outcome of the matter the Committee has decided to reopen; petitioner barred from claiming equity.

Issue for consideration

Whether the petitioner, whose tribe claim of belonging to 'Koli Mahadev' Scheduled Tribe was invalidated by the respondent/Scrutiny Committee vide order dated 05.03.2025, deserves to be granted conditional validity in view of the conditional validities granted by this Court to her cousin uncle and cousin brother on the self-same record.

Court's answer

In view of the prior conditional validities granted to the petitioner's cousin uncle and cousin brother, and as the learned AGP does not dispute this aspect nor the petitioner's relationship with those validity holders, the petitioner deserves to be granted conditional validity.

Ratio / Principle

The impugned order dated 05.03.2025 passed by respondent No.2/Scrutiny Committee invalidating the petitioner's tribe claim of belonging to 'Koli Mahadev' Scheduled Tribe is quashed and set aside.

Key takeaways

The respondent/Scrutiny Committee is directed to issue to the petitioner a tribe validity certificate of belonging to 'Koli Mahadev' Scheduled Tribe.ratio¶21
The validity certificate issued to the petitioner shall be conterminous with the validity certificates on which the petitioner relies and subject to the final outcome of the matter which the Committee has decided to reopen.ratio¶22
The petitioner shall not claim any equity by virtue of the validity certificate issued.

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Tribe claim – 'Koli Mahadev' Scheduled Tribe – Claim of petitioner Mansi Parashuram Nagdarwad invalidated by respondent No.2/Scrutiny Committee vide order dated 05.03.2025 – Writ Petition partly allowed; invalidation order quashed and set aside – Committee directed to issue tribe validity certificate – Grant rests on conditional validities earlier conferred by this Court on the petitioner's cousin uncle (Ganpat Nivrutti Nagdarwad, W.P. No.201 of 2025, order dated 01.08.2024) and cousin brother (Vaibhav Ganpat Nagdarwad, W.P. No.8142 of 2020, order dated 16.12.2020) considering the self-same record – Learned AGP did not dispute the aspect or the relationship with the validity holders – Certificate to be conterminous with the validity certificates relied upon and subject to final outcome of the matter the Committee has decided to reopen – Petitioner not to claim any equity.

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2026:BHC-AUG:20088-DB

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD

962 WRIT PETITION NO. 3802 OF 2025 MANSI PARASHURAM NAGDARWAD

VERSUS

THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA THROUGH ITS SECRETARY AND ANOTHER

Advocate for the Petitioner : Mr. Boinwad Omgashad B. AGP/APP for Respondent/State : Mr. P.S. Patil

CORAM : SANDIPKUMAR C. MORE AND ABASAHEB D. SHINDE, JJ. DATE : 29.04.2026

PER COURT : (PER : ABASAHEB D. SHINDE, J.)

. Heard.

By this Writ Petition, the petitioner takes exception to the order dated 05.03.2025 passed by the respondent/Scrutiny Committee by which the tribe claim of the petitioner of belonging to ‘Koli Mahadev’ Scheduled Tribe has been invalidated.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that after considering the self-same record, this Court in the case of Ganpat Nivrutti Nagdarwad vs. The State of Maharashtra and Others in Writ Petition No.201 of 2025 vide order dated 01.08.2024 has granted conditional validity, to the cousin uncle of the petitioner.

He would further submit that the cousin brother of the petitioner viz. Vaibhav Ganpat Nagdarwad whose tribe claim was invalidated had approached this Court by filing Writ Petition No.8142 of 2020 and this Court vide order dated 16.12.2020 granted conditional validity even to said Vaibhav. He therefore, submit that the petitioner deserves to be

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granted conditional validity.

Learned AGP does not dispute this aspect nor the relationship of the petitioner with the said validity holders to whom this Court has granted conditional validities.

In that view of the matter, we find that the petitioner deserves to be granted conditional validity. We therefore, pass the following order :

ORDER

i) The Writ Petition is partly allowed.

ii) The impugned order dated 05.03.2025 passed by the respondent No.2/Scrutiny Committee invalidating the tribe claim of the petitioner of belonging to ‘Koli Mahadev’ Scheduled Tribe is hereby quashed and set-aside.

iii) The respondent/Scrutiny Committee shall issue tribe validity certificate of belonging to ‘Koli Mahadev’ Scheduled Tribe to the petitioner.

iv) We make it clear that the validity certificate issued in favour of the petitioner shall be conterminus with the validity certificates on which petitioner relies and subject to the final outcome of the matter which the committee has decided to reopen.

v) The petitioner will not claim any equity.

( ABASAHEB D. SHINDE, J. ) ( SANDIPKUMAR C. MORE, J. )

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