923-WP-7644-2025.odt IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD 923 WRIT PETITION NO. 7644 OF 2025 DATTATRAYA SHIVAJI MAREWAD AND OTHERS VERSUS THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER .… Mr. M. V. Thorat, Advocate for the Petitioners Mr. S. D. Ghayal, Addl. G.P. for the Respondents – State .… CORAM : RAVINDRA V. GHUGE AND Y. G. KHOBRAGADE, JJ. DATE : 26.06.2025 PER COURT :- 1. Petitioner Nos. 1 and 2, aged 38 years and 35 years respectively, claim that they are inspired to take further education. They have tendered their claims for seeking validity certificate of belonging to “Koli Mahadev” Scheduled Tribe category, recently. Petitioner No.3, who is 25 years of age, tendered the application in 2015 and the same is still pending. 2. In view of the above, this Writ Petition is disposed off with the following directions:- 1 of 2 2025:BHC-AUG:16899-DB (( 2 )) 923-WP-7644-2025 (a) The claim of Petitioner No.3 Akash Baburao Marewad, which is said to be pending for the last ten years, shall be decided on or before 15.10.2025. For easy correspondence, the Petitioner tenders his e-mail address as under and the parties would enter into correspondence through e-mail :- marewad@gmail.com. (b) The claim of Petitioner Nos. 1 and 2, namely, Dattatray Shivaji Marewad and Bhagwan Shivaji Marewad, shall be decided on or before 31.12.2025. For correspondence, their e-mail addresses are mentioned as under:- marewaddattatry@gmail.com marewadbhagwan@gmail.com (c) The Petitioner would refrain from seeking adjournments on unreasonable or trivial grounds. (d) The Committee shall deliver the orders in the respective cases to the respective petitioners through e-mail. [ Y. G. KHOBRAGADE, J. ] [ RAVINDRA V. GHUGE, J. ] SMS 2 of 2