Dr. Subhash Kashinath Mahajan, the Director of Technical Education in Maharashtra, denied prosecution sanction for two senior officials implicated in negative remarks regarding Scheduled Caste employee Bhaskar Karbhari Gaidwad, resulting ... in a 'C' Summary report that was subsequently dismissed by the court. Gaidwad then filed an FIR against Mahajan under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, asserting Mahajan's incompetence to refuse sanction, which led to an unsuccessful petition in the Bombay High Court and an appeal to the Supreme Court.