According to sources the bombay high court on thursday issued a notice to the maharashtra government and sought its response on a PIL filed against the decision to give 10 percent reservation in jobs and education to the maratha community. A division bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and Justice Arif S doctor has asked the state to file its reply within four weeks. The bench also allowed intervention applications filed by beneficiaries of the Socially and Educationally backward classes (SEBC) Act 2024. The maharashtra Legislature on february 20 unanimously passed the maharashtra State Socially and Educationally Backward Bill 2024, which provides 10 percent reservation for the maratha community in education and government jobs.

Perhaps last week, advocate Jayashree Patil and others had filed a public interest litigation (PIL) against the state government's move, saying the government and the opposition had taken such a decision for 'cheap politics'.

Moreover Shivba organization leader Manoj Jarange-Patil has ended his 17-day long hunger strike in his village Antarwali-Sarti on the request of the maratha community and the maharashtra government. After treatment, he will start a statewide journey for maratha reservation. Jarange-Patil canceled his plans to go to mumbai, broke his hunger strike, but announced that the movement to achieve quota for Marathas under 'sej-soyare' (family lineage) would continue to its logical end. Last week, in a special session of the maharashtra Legislature, the state government passed the maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Peoples Bill, 2024, giving 10 percent quota to Marathas. Jarange-Patil are adamant on declaring Marathas as 'Kunbi caste' and giving them a separate quota from the OBC category, a formal notification for 'Sej-Soare' after the release of the draft on january 26 and other demands.