16-WP-6302-2024.doc IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIRCUIT BENCH AT KOLHAPUR CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 6302 OF 2024 Rupesh Bhikaji Bhalekar ...Petitioner Versus The State Of Maharashtra Through The Principle Secretary And Ors. ...Respondents —————— Mr. Anand Patil a/w Mr. Soham Powar, Mr. Pratik B., for the Petitioner. Mr. V. M. Mali AGP for the Respondent-State. Ms. Ankita Chindage i/b Mr. Pankaj Devkar, for the Respondent- ZP, —————— Coram : SHARMILA U. DESHMUKH & NEERAJ P. DHOTE, JJ. Date : AUGUST 20, 2026 P. C. : 1. By the present Petition, the relief sought by the Petitioner was for a direction to the Respondents to provide a photocopy of the Petitioner’s own question and answer sheet. Accordingly, the answer sheet of the present Petitioner has been provided. 2. The Petitioner now seeks to expand the scope of the Petition by claiming that the provided answer sheet is not his answer sheet. The relief sought in the Petition was a direction to provide a photocopy of the answer sheet, which has now been provided alongwith an affidavit from the Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Parishad, Sindhudurg. The Arya Chavan 1 of 2 2026:BHC-KOL:7808-DB 16-WP-6302-2024.doc affidavit states that the online exam for the post of Live Stock Supervisor was conducted on 17th October, 2023 through the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (“IBPS”), and after conducting the exam, IBPS provided the model answer key and Petitioner’s answer sheet to Zilla Parishad, Sindhudurg. Though, Mr. Patil would submit that the answer sheet must come from IBPS, paragraph four of the affidavit of Zilla Parishad states that IBPS had provided the model answer key and Petitioner’s answer sheet to the Zilla Parishad, which is sufficient answer for Zilla Parishad to produce the answer sheet. 3. In the exercise of its writ jurisdiction, this Court cannot go into the question as to whether the provided answer sheet is correct or incorrect. As the grievance in the Petition was limited to the refusal to provide the Petitioner’s answer sheet, which has now been provided, it is open for the Petitioner to raise other issues in independent proceedings, if permissible in law. 4. The Petition stands disposed of. [NEERAJ P. DHOTE, J.] [SHARMILA U. DESHMUKH, J.] Arya Chavan 2 of 2