Rohidas Vishnudas Totewad Thr Father and Natural Guardian Vishnudas Pandurang Totewad v. the State of Maharashtra through Secretary and Another
Case brief
What is this about?
Bombay High Court, Aurangabad Bench — Writ Petition Nos. 8928 and 9844 of 2025 (decided 18 March 2026; Coram: Sandipkumar C. More and Abasaheb D. Shinde, JJ.; oral order per Abasaheb D. Shinde, J.). Keywords: Koli Mahadev Scheduled Tribe; caste validity certificate; Scrutiny Committee Maharashtra; invalidation quashed and set aside; conditional validity; blood-relative validity holder; Shravan Vishnudas Totewad; Writ Petition No. 12484 of 2024; order dated 29.11.2024; selfsame record; proposed reverification; Devidas Totewad; no equities; Atmaram Pandurang Totewad; Rohidas Vishnudas Totewad through guardian Vishnudas Pandurang Totewad; advocate Mr. O. B. Boinwad; AGP Mr. N. B. Patil.
What did the court decide?
Both writ petitions partly allowed: impugned Scrutiny Committee judgment and order dated 16.06.2025 quashed and set aside; respondent No.2/Scrutiny Committee directed to issue caste validity certificates of belonging to “Koli Mahadev” Scheduled Tribe to the petitioners, subject to the outcome of the proposed reverification of the validity certificate of one Devidas Totewad; petitioners not to claim any equities.