The Bombay High Court on May 7 upheld the Maharashtra government’s notifications of renaming Aurangabad and revenue areas as Chatrapati Sambhajinagar and Osmanabad as Dharashiv respectively.
The Bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Upadhyaya and Justice Arif S. Doctor stated that the government’s notifications for the name changes were not in violation of the constitution and “do not suffer from any illegality or any vice”.
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