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2. The petitioners are blood relatives inter se from the paternal side and challenging the judgment and order passed by the Scrutiny Committee in a proceeding under Section 7 of the Maharashtra Act No. XXIII of 2001, invalidating their claims as belonging to Koli Mahadev scheduled tribe.

3. During the course of hearing, it transpires that in fact the impugned judgment and order passed by the Scrutiny Committee was a common order passed in respect of four individuals related by blood from paternal side. Petitioners were the three individuals out of those and one Shivaji Subhash Khanderay was the fourth one. There is no dispute regarding all these four individuals being blood relatives from the paternal side. Rather only because of this circumstance, the Committee has passed the common order refuting claims of each of them.

4. Incidentally, may be because of the exigencies prevailing at that time, in the matter of Shivaji Subhash Khanderay, Writ Petition No. 1461 of 2022, this Court by an order dated 01 February 2022, after considering the facts and circumstances allowed the Writ Petition and directed the Committee to issue a validity certificate to him which was made subject to the decision that was to be taken by the Committee in the proceedings it has decided to reopen in respect of the validity holders.