On Friday in a setback for approximately 1.5 crore people of the Dhangar (shepherd) community in Maharashtra, the Bombay High Court dismissed pleas seeking Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for the.
The petitioners had claimed that Dhangars formed nearly 9% of Maharashtra’s population and should be given Scheduled Tribe status because they were a part of the ST list in other states
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The petitioners could not establish that the ‘Dhangad’ community did not exist in Bombay when the ‘sacrosanct’ Presidential Order of 1950 was issued, the court observed.
The affidavit by Bhausaheb claimed that he and his father and grandfather were under 'strong impression' that 'Dhangad and Dhangar' were one and the same and there was a spelling mistake in two words, and therefore obtained ST certificate based on his father's certificate.