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Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The limit of two children set for panchayat members in Maharashtra will only include biological offspring and not stepchildren, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court ruled on Saturday. India News | Two Children Limit for Panchayat Members Will Include Biological Offspring, Not Stepchildren, Says Bombay HC.

Khairunisa Sheikh Chand in her plea claimed that her husband Sheikh Chand had two sons from a previous marriage and that they now have only one child from their marriage.

The single-judge bench referred the matter to clarify whether the expression “two children” used under the law has been used in “generic sense” so as to include all children including step-children or it is used in a restricted sense to mean only those children born to the person.

The court noted that the objective behind the provision was to disqualify a person, who has birthed more than two children

They have been charged under IPC sections of robbery, wrongful restraint, kidnapping and criminal conspiracy, says deputy commissioner, Port