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Ashish S/O Ravindra Ghosalkar v. The Vice-Chairman/Member-Secretary, S.T. Caste Certificate Scrutiny Committee, Amravati

2022-06-13Hon'Ble Shri Justice A.S. Chandurkar,Hon'Ble Justice Urmila Joshi Phalke2 pages

WP 1074-22 Judgment

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY,

NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR.

WRIT PETITION NO. 1074/2022 Ashish S/o Ravindra Ghosalkar, Aged about 19 yrs, Occ. Student, R/o Ward No.6, Sai Nagar, Ghugus, Chandrapur, Distt. Chandrapur.

PETITIONER .....VERSUS.....

The Vice-Chairman/Member-Secretary, Scheduled Tribe Caste Certificate Scrutiny Committee, Chaprashipura, Amravati.

R ESPONDENT S Ms P.D. Rane, counsel for the petitioner.

Ms N.P. Mehta, Assistant Government Pleader for the respondent. CORAM : A. S. CHANDURKAR AND URMILA JOSHI-PHALKE, J J . D ATE : 13 TH JUNE, 2022 .

ORAL

JUDGMENT

(PER : A.S. CHANDURKAR, J.) RULE. Rule made returnable forthwith and heard the learned counsel for the parties.

2.

The only prayer made in this writ petition is for a direction to be issued to the Scrutiny Committee to decide the petitioner's caste claim being a student.

3.

The learned counsel for the petitioner by referring to the averments made in paragraph 6 of the writ petition submits that after receiving the report of the Vigilance Cell the petitioner has submitted his reply on 08.02.2022. It is further stated that hearing in the proceedings was conducted on 16.03.2022.

WP 1074-22 Judgment 4.

Since the petitioner is a student and has already lost one year for failure to submit the validity certificate, the writ petition is disposed of by issuing the following order:- (I) The Scrutiny Committee shall decide the proceedings for verification of the petitioner's caste claim within a period of six weeks from the first date of the petitioner's appearance before the Scrutiny Committee. The petitioner shall appear before the Scrutiny Committee on 20.06.2022 so that issuance of notice is dispensed with.

(II) The claim shall be decided in accordance with law and within the time indicated.

5.

Rule is made absolute in aforesaid terms. No costs. (URMILA JOSHI-PHALKE, J.) (A.S. CHANDURKAR, J.) APTE byROHIT DATTATRAYA APTE