A Division Bench of the Bombay High Court connected Monday (September 22, 2025) recused from proceeding a clump of petitions challenging the Maharashtra Government’s determination to contented Kunbi caste certificates to the Maratha assemblage members for reservation.
Five petitions person been filed by persons from the Other Backward Classes, claiming that issuing a Kunbi caste certificate to the Maratha assemblage would consequently see them successful the OBC category.
The pleas came up for proceeding earlier a Bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Sandesh Patil.
Justice Patil, however, said helium cannot instrumentality up the pleas for hearing, pursuing which the Bench recused, without specifying immoderate reason.
The petitions volition present beryllium placed for proceeding successful owed people earlier the Bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad.
The pleas person been filed by the Kunbi Sena, Maharashtra Mali Samaj Mahasangh, Ahir Suvarnkar Samaj Sanstha, Sadanad Mandalik and Maharashtra Nabhik Mahamandal.
They claimed the government’s determination was arbitrary, unconstitutional and atrocious successful law, and deserves to beryllium quashed.
The Kunbi Sena, successful its plea, claimed the authorities resolutions alteration the ground and criteria for issuance of certificates of 3 castes — Kunbi, Kunbi Maratha and Maratha Kunbi.
The resolutions are “vague” and would effect successful “utter chaos”, it added.
“The determination is simply a circuitous method of granting caste certificates to the Maratha assemblage from Other Backward Classes by a confusing and vague procedure, which is inclusion of the assemblage successful the OBC category,” the plea claimed.
The government’s determination to contented Kunbi caste certificates to eligible persons from the Maratha assemblage came aft quota activistic Manoj Jarange staged a hunger onslaught for 5 days from August 29 astatine Azad Maidan successful southbound Mumbai.
For 5 days, Mr. Jarange and his supporters surrounded respective captious areas successful southbound Mumbai, drafting the ire of the Bombay High Court, which said the metropolis had been paralysed and brought to a standstill.
On September 2, the authorities issued a solution (GR) connected the Hyderabad gazetteer, and announced the enactment of a committee to facilitate the issuance of Kunbi caste certificates to Marathas who are capable to nutrient documentary grounds recognising them arsenic Kunbis successful the past.
There has been restlessness among OBCs aft the State societal justness and peculiar assistance section issued the GR connected implementing the Hyderabad gazetteer, which volition let eligible members of the Maratha assemblage to use for Kunbi caste certificates.
This volition alteration them to assertion quota nether the OBC class aft certificates are issued.
