GEETA DATTATRAY ACHARI vs STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ORS

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LSP wp 14840.22.doc IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Writ Petition No. 14840 of 2022 Mrs. Geeta Dattatray Achari … Petitioner V/s. State of Maharashtra and others … Respondents. Mr. Yash Agarwal a/w. Advocate Disha Rathod and Advocate Ruturaj Bethe i/b. Vaibhav Kulkarni for the Petitioner. Mr. G.R.Raghuwanshi, AGP for the Respondents-State. CORAM : M.S. KARNIK & S.M. MODAK, JJ. DATE : 29th January 2026. JUDGMENT: (PER S.M.MODAK, J) . An interesting question has arisen in this petition which Digitally signed by LATA SUNIL LATA SUNIL PANJWANI pertains to ascertaining the caste of an adopted child. This question PANJWANI Date: 2026.01.30 19:05:08 +0530 has arisen on the background that the parents of the adopted child are not known. He was abandoned and was thereafter adopted by the present Petitioner, being the adoptive mother. She along with her husband Dattatray have made an application before the District Court, Pune as per the provisions of what was then ‘The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000’. One ‘ Society for Friends of the Sassoon Hospital’’(SOFOSH) was also a co- 1/10 LSP wp 14840.22.doc applicant. 2. The District Court after completing the procedure as per the order dated 22nd August 2014 has passed the following order:- “1. The application is allowed. 2. It is hereby declared that the birth date of male minor Om Dattatray Achari is 5/2/2010 at Pune, (Maharashtra State). 3. It is hereby declared that proposed adopters MR. Dattatray Waman Acahari and Mrs. Geeta Dattatray Achari are adoptive parents of male minorOm, henceforth wished to be named as Om Dattatray Achari. 4. It is hereby directed to the Municipal Corporation, Pune, to issue birth certificate of minor Om, henceforth wished to be named as