1 907-31.odt IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD 907 WRIT PETITION NO. 12853 OF 2026 1. Sanjay Pandurang More 2. Prashant Tukaram Zariwad 3. Bhimashankar Ashokrao Bachhewar 4. Bashveshwar Marotirao Mangnale 5. Bhagwan Narayanrao Sontakke 6. Usha Shripati Bhalerao 7. Kaushalya Baburao Biradar 8. Sachin Shivaji Gawali 9. Sarikha Bhagawanrao Rachotkar 10. Madhav Kalba Bodke 11. Anant Sriram Shiranjipalwar 12. Shyamrao Ramrao Sontakke 13. Sainath Dhonduram Kawtikwar 14. Surekha Ganeshrao Tawde 15. Pranjali Hanmantrao Varwanthkar 16. Brahmanand Ramji Chavan 17. Rajeshwar Laxman Katre 18. Ajay Damodharrao Umak 19. Umakant Digambarrao Kajale 20. Laxman Marotirao Mundkar 21. Yogesh Dasu Vaidya 22. Vinay Parasharam Wairagade 23. Ganesh Babarao Gadhe 24. Sachin Devrao Narwade 25. Shankar Hanmantrao Hiparge 26. Venkat Gopalrao Kokane 27. Ramesh Jayprakash Hiremath 28. Anwari Begam Shaikh Ali 29. Balaji Vithalrao Achewad SVH 2026:BHC-AUG:44550-DB 2 907-31.odt 30. Venkat Ujlappa Bhogaje 31. Venkatrao Nagnathrao Mugave 32. Dipak Motiram Warkad 33. Mohammad Raffi Chandsab Aurade 34. Gangaprasad Raghunath Indewar 35. Urmila Sainaji Khillare 36. Vitthal Narayanrao Landge 37. Kavita Govindrao Pekamwar 38. Rupsing Sakharam Jadhav 39. Sangita Vishwambhar Hulsure 40. Mehjabeen Shamshoddin Momin 41. Sultan Maulasab Shaikh 42. Sadanand Ramkrishn Motghare 43. Sudhakar Shesherao Bodke 44. Sikandar Ranveer Dongre 45. Hanmant Madhavrao Thaware 46. Ramdas Parshuram Kendre 47. Maroti Tukaram Vitthalwad 48. Vitthal Tukaram Konde 49. Balaji Nivrutti Hangarge 50. Shabanam Bandenwaj Shaikh 51. Rahul Sureshrao Dhage 52. Sarang Vasantrao Ghule 53. Anilkumar Keshavrao Patil 54. Avinash Vishwanath Dhawale 55. Madhav Shivram Kamble 56. Annasaheb Atmaram Dhokale 57. Anil Vitthalrao Khandekar 58. Nandkishor Gurunath Wadkar 59. Aarti Omprakash Kamtheka 60. Ramesh Vishwnath Swami ... Petitioners Versus SVH 3 907-31.odt The State of Maharashtra Through Its Secretary And Others … Respondents ... Mr. Rahul B. Bagul And Sangita R. Bagul, Advocate for the Petitioner Mr. N. D. Batule, AGP for Respondents Mr. R. K. Ingole, Advocate for Respondent Nos.4 to 6 ... 31 WRIT PETITION NO. 12617 OF 2026 1. Ankush Nagorao Thorat 2. Deepak Pandurang Gore 3. Faruk Shabbirmiya Shaikh 4. Bandu Vitthal Gunjkar 5. Balaji Anandrao Wanje 6. Vinod Maroti Marpalwad 7. Shriram Piraji Satamwad 8. Mohan Nandu Rathod 9. Ramakant Shivmurti Mathpati 10. Gajendra Gangadharrao Gore 11. Gajanan Apparao Shewalkar 12. Yadav Ashokrao Patil 13. Atiya Khatoun M. A. Sattar Khan 14. Kadam Rekha Shankarrao 15. Minhaj Ahmad Abdul Munaf 16. Waghmare Aruna Sakharam 17. Asole Rangnath Taterao 18. Mahajan Varsha Keshavrao 19. Shaikh Aspak Ibrahim 20. Pote Shivdas Ranba 21. Chalak Prakash Vyankatrrao 22. Wakode Baburao Ranoji 23. Rathod Vitthal Uttam 24. Pawar Sanjay Shankarrao 25. Hatte Madhav Shankarrao SVH 4 907-31.odt 26. Dileep Gunvantrao Naik 27. Dhonde Shevantesh Gangadhar 28. Balwante Ravi Nivrati 29. Namdev Bhagwan Tandale 30. Maroti Kondba Sable 31. Ramdas Dattatrya Thote 32. Mangesh Baburao Chaoutmal 33. Nirmala Hanumantrao Markwad 34. Punam Ashokrao Ghatole 35. Gangadhar Jaywantrao Sontakke 36. Prabhu Shivaji Gawate 37. Shital Uttamrao Kotlwar 38. Sanjay Baliram Sawant 39. Sunita Vishwanath Gire 40. Chiranjeevi Lingareddy Katta 41. Raviraj Ramlingappa Patre 42. Umakant Virbhadra Patre 43. Jadhav Achuta Chakradhar 44. Shrikant Vijayrao Sevankar 45. Prashant Vijayrao Sevankar 46. Chandrakant Rameshwar Kawarkhe 47. Vishwanath Pralhad Rathod 48. Ajitsing Ramsing Thakur 49. Wable Datta Pralhad 50. Bhurke Gajanan Gomaji 51. Khillare Sheshrao Limbaji 52. Ansari Javed Ahmed Abdul Waheed 53. Uzma Parveen Ab-Haleem Ansari 54. Parveen Shaikh Basheer 55. Lata Sitaram Rathod 56. Pandurang Laxman Jagtap 57. Amitkumar Madhukarrao Charpe SVH 5 907-31.odt 58. Sumaiyya Farheen Mohammed Younus 59. Saleema Bi Gulam Samdani 60. Syed Nazema Begum Syed Sabir Ali 61. Khan Shaziya Nazeen Afzal Ahmed 62. Nadeemuddin Kaleemuddin Shaikh 63. Nagnath Gundappa Lakshette 64. Rajashree Chandrakant Kalambarkar 65. Nageshkumar Gangadhar Asore 66. Shivshankar Mohanrao Vhadgir 67. Nagorao Vithalrao Vhadgir 68. Mohd. Aslam Meraj M. D. Siddique Ahmed 69. Narendrakumar Gopinath Sangewar 70. Deepak Ashokrao Kadam 71. Vibhute Pandurang Kundlikrao 72. Bayas Surendrasinh Kishansinh 73. Pawar Priyanka Sakharam 74. Haran Sunil Sambhaji 75. Deshmukh Bhaskar Baburao 76. Chikhalikar Priyanka Baburao 77. Dhangare Pradip Narayan 78. Shivaji Namdev Shinde 79. Durga Vishnudas Kulthe 80. Sarangayya Bhujangayya Godare 81. Sheikh Maqsud Bakshud 82. Bobade Pratibha Jijarao 83. Bedre Vilas Ganesh 84. Bhalerao Prashant Keshavrao 85. Rajendra Kishanrao Sontakke 86. Reshma Diliprao Muttepawar 87. Arun Shriram Deshmukh 88. Vinodkumar Shankar Honshette 89. Biradar Dhanraj Laxman SVH 6 907-31.odt 90. Sabir Shah Gulzar Shah 91. Vikas Angadrao Biradar 92. Dhammanand Fakirrao Dhule 93. Bhalchandra Wamanrao Patil 94. Tattapure Manisha Nagnathrao 95. Dahifale Maheshwari Manohar 96. Shep Vitthal Tukaram 97. Shaikh Feroz Usman 98. Nampalle Sandesh Angad 99. Tamanna Virbhadra Vitthalrao 100. Gajjaldwar Tanaji Gangaram 101.Shaikh Feroze Gulam Samadani 102.Quratul Ain Goher Syed Rafiuddin Hashmi 103.Faheem Ahmed Shaikh Raheem Shaikh 104.Kotalwar Dhananjay Kishanrao 105.Revanwar Monica Balaji 106.Shaikh Shabana Afreen Mahomad Ibrahim 107.Amol Nagnath Gavkonde (Penurkar) 108.Sakharam Laxman Gathadi 109.Suraj Sambhaji Kamble 110.Parmeshwar Bhagwat Soradge 111.Surekha Devidas Jawalage 112.Aher Rajkumar Vishwanathrao 113.Kasalwar Balaji Madhavrao 114.Giri Vivek Mohangir 115.Ingole Vijayata Ganpat 116.Deosarkar Niteen Prabhakar 117.Keshav Madhavrao Ghuge 118.Asaram Bhikaji Charhate 119.Kavar Tulshiram Dattarao 120.Tale Ramprasad Vithalrao 121.Deshmukh Sham Manikrao SVH 7 907-31.odt 122.Murlidhar Babarao Dhawse 123.Barve Vaishali Jambuwantrao 124.Bhagat Avinash Shankarrao 125.Khan Sumaira Anjum Nasrullah 126.Madhav Satvaji Naik 127.Hamed Iqbal Ansari Abdul Muqeet 128.Syed Abdullah Saber Syed Qamar 129.Bhimrao Laxmanrao Sarkate 130.Sanjaykumar Ramchandra Shewalkar 131.Vijay Dalit Pandit 132.Bolegave Baburao Vithalrao 133.Prakash Shrawan Dhabe 134.Minakshi Vishnudas Kulthe 135.Azeem Khan Sattar Khan 136.Sangita Shrirang Khillare 137.Pathan Heena Kausar Saberkha … Petitioners Versus The State of Maharashtra Through Its Secretary And Others … Respondents ... Mr. Rahul B. Bagul And Sangita R. Bagul, Advocate for the Petitioner Mr. A. B. Girase, GP for Respondents Mr. S. B. Ghute, Advocate for Respondent Nos.4 to 6 ... CORAM : NITIN B. SURYAWANSHI AND ABASAHEB D. SHINDE, JJ. DATE : 23rd SEPTEMBER, 2026 PER COURT : 1. Indisputably the issue raised in these petitions is squarely covered by the decision of the Co-ordinate Bench of this Court at Nagpur in Writ Petition No.5563 of 2022 (Ganesh Mahadeo Asekar and Others Vs. The State of Maharashtra) SVH 8 907-31.odt decided vide judgment dated 08/05/2026. 2. In view of the decision in Ganesh Mahadeo Asekar (supra) declaring clause 3 of Government Resolution dated 13/10/2016 as discriminatory and violative of Article 14 of the Constitution of India, as far as the petitioners therein are concerned and since the petitioners herein are similarly situated, for the reasons recorded in Ganesh Mahadeo Asekar (supra), we are inclined to pass the following order :- ORDER (a) We declare that Clause 3 of the Government Resolution dated 13/10/2016 as discriminatory and violative of Article 14 of the Constitution of India as far as the petitioners are concerned. As such, the impugned orders passed in cases of these petitioners are quashed and set aside. (b) We further direct the respondents Zilla Parishads to grant the benefit of subject teacher pay scale to those petitioners who are already working as a subject teacher of Classes 6 to 8 from the date of appointment on the post of subject teacher. (c) We also direct the respondents Zilla Parishads that the petitioners, who have acquired the said requisite qualification during their service, would be entitled to subject teacher pay scale from the date of acquiring such SVH 9 907-31.odt qualification. (d) We also direct the respondents Zilla Parishads to pay arrears, if any, to the petitioners from the date of appointment or date of acquiring qualification as the case may be, within eight weeks from the date of this order. 3. The Writ Petitions are allowed in terms of the above directions and disposed of. (ABASAHEB D. SHINDE, J.) (NITIN B. SURYAWANSHI, J.) SVH