Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1447 · Decided 16 December 2008
Sau Kusum v. State of Maharashtra & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1447 · [2008] 17 S.C.R. 675
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7313/2008
- Decided
- 16 December 2008
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, CYRIAC JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
\.. Election - Panchayat elections in State of Maharashtra - Reserved seat - Entitlement to contest - Of migrants to State pursuant to re-organisation thereof - Appellant contested c elections claiming OBC status stating that she belonged to -r' carpenter caste - Family of appellant had to Maharashtra, after reorganization of the two States - Election of appellant challenged on ground that she did not belong to OBC - Caste D Scrutiny Committee relying upon a Government circular concluded that appellant was not a resident of Maharashtra ; prior to 1967 and accordingly declined to
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