SC rejects to intervene in the case of name change of cities

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Dharashiv name will remain unchanged

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar – The Supreme Court dismissed an SLP filed against the Bombay High Court order upholding the Maharashtra Government’s notifications changing the name of Aurangabad and Osmanabad cities to Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Dharashiv, respectively.

The Bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and S.V.N Bhatti refused to interfere with the impugned order. The right to change name is given by law. Therefore, there is no point in interfering with it, the Supreme Court observed. Due to this decision of the Supreme Court, now the names of both the districts of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Dharashiv will remain unchanged.

No need to rename Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar and Dharashiv. – Supreme Court’s intervenes.

👉 This victory is dedicated to Hindu Hriday Samrat Shri. Balasaheb Thackeray.
– @iambadasdanve Leader of Opposition, Legislative Council. pic.twitter.com/ezQcYO109E

— Sanatan Prabhat (@SanatanPrabhat) August 2, 2024

After renaming Aurangabad district to ‘Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar’ and Osmanabad district to ‘Dharashiv’, some citizens opposed it. An intervention petition was filed in the Supreme Court in this regard.

The Supreme Court observed in this case and said that after name change some citizens will support and some citizens will oppose. Therefore, there is no need to interfere in this matter.

AIMIM party’s opposition

The AIMIM party had protested and also filed an intervention petition in the court against Aurangabad to be renamed as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. Imtiaz Jaleel, former MP of AIMIM, had taken the initiative in this matter.

The victory of the role of ‘Hindu hruday Samrat’ Balasaheb Thackeray – Ambadas Danve, Leader of Opposition, Legislative Council

In this context, the leader of the opposition Ambadas Danve has said through a post, “This is a victory for the role of Shiv Sena chief ‘Hindu Hruday Samrat’ Balasaheb Thackeray. He himself changed the name on 9th May 1988. Today, the Goddess of justice has also accepted it.”

This case is still in court – Claim of Mohammad Hisham Usmani’s advocate

The Government had decided to rename Aurangabad as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. Against that, the former mayor of the Congress, Mohammad Hisham Osmani, filed a petition in the Bombay High Court. ‘This matter has not yet come to the board. The case has not been heard in the Supreme Court. Because of this, the petition in the name change case was rejected, such fake news is being shown’, claimed advocate S.S. Qazi. “I will not comment on this as the matter is still in the court”, he said while talking to reporters.