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Bombay High Court:<\/strong> A Division Bench comprising of Vasanti Naik and Riyaz I. Chagla, JJ. heard a petition seeking directions to the restrain the second respondent from disqualifying the petitioner from the Solapur Municipal Corporation till the decision of the caste claim of the petitioner by the Divisional Caste Scrutiny Committee is not served. The petitioner had contested Solapur Municipal Corporation elections as a candidate of the Congress party for an OBC category seat by submitting documents in support of her claim of belonging to \u201cTambat\u201d OBC on the basis of her husband\u2019s and not her father\u2019s caste.<\/p>\n

Once elected as Corporator, the Caste Scrutiny Committee directed the petitioner to submit caste documents from her father\u2019s side which supported the caste claim of \u201cLohar NT\u201d. The petitioner contended that the delay in filing of the caste certificate was because of the delay being caused by the respondent Committee. It was submitted that though the petitioner had contested the elections under her husband\u2019s caste, she had complied with the directions of the Caste Scrutiny Committee and had submitted caste documents from her father\u2019s side.<\/p>\n

Upholding the arguments made by the respondents and relying on Meera Kanwaria<\/em> v. Sunita,<\/em> 2006 (1) SCC 344<\/a>, the Court held that \u201ca married woman cannot by relying on her husband\u2019s caste claim entitlement to contest election for the seat reserved for a Scheduled Caste candidate\u201d because a high caste Hindu, who hasn\u2019t been subject to backwardness in his life does not become a member of the Scheduled Caste or Scehduled Tribe by reason of marriage alone. The Court established that the petitioner had been wrongfully elected as Corporator based on her husband\u2019s caste, and therefore, the petition was dismissed. [Anuradha Sudhakar Katkar v. Divisional Caste Scrutiny Committee, 2017 SCC OnLine Bom 8905<\/a>, order dated 3.10.2017]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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