In Brief
Rajesh s/o Shrirambapu Fate filed a civil appeal against the State of Maharashtra. The Supreme Court bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and Navin Sinha dismissed the appeal, adopting the reasoning from a companion judgment in Civil Appeal No.5444 of 2019 (Vishal Ashok Thorat v. Rajesh Shrirambapu Fate & Ors.). The judgment relies on the substantive grounds articulated in the related appeal without separately restating those reasons.
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