Rohan S/O Santosh Parate v. The Committee For Verification Of S.T.Certificates, Yavatmal, Thr. Member Secy. And ANR

2024:BHC-NAG:11231-DB 1 917-wp 5960.2024.odt

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR WRIT PETITION NO. 5960 OF 2024 ( Rohan s/o Santosh Parate vs. The Committee for Verification of Scheduled Tribe Certificates, Yavatmal and another ) Office Notes, Office Memorandum of Coram, appearances, Court's orders of directions Court's or Judge's order and Registrar's orders.

Mr. K.S.Narwade, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. A.S.Fulzele, Additional Government Pleader for the respondent No.1.

CORAM : BHARATI DANGRE AND ABHAY J. MANTRI , JJ.

ATE : OCTOBER 08 , 2024 1) Regarding the grievance of the petitioner, we can only express our displeasure, as we have noted that the claim of the petitioner which is registered with the Scrutiny Committee on 17/01/2023 is yet undecided, resulting into deprivation of a seat allotted to him by the State Common Entrance Test Cell, as it was required to be cancelled, on account of non-production of the validity certificate. We also note that the claim of the petitioner was forwarded through G.S.Gawande College, Umarkhed, the College in which the petitioner was taking education on 15/11/2022 itself.

2) The learned Additional Government Pleader Mr.Fulzele, has placed before us a communication dated 08/10/2024 from the Scrutiny Committee at Yavatmal informing that the Police Vigilance in the said case is pending and there are approximately 260 proceedings which are pending and therefore, four months time should be sought, for deciding the claim of the petitioner.

2 917-wp 5960.2024.odt The petitioner has been frantically making correspondence to the Scrutiny Committee and one such request letter is filed at Annexure - E to the petition. 3) The Committee has informed us through the Additional Government Pleader that it is seized of multiple matters, but what we expect from the Committee is giving preference to the matters of the students, who are going to participate in the admission process for the academic year and all other general claims which are pending shall take a back seat for a while, but we do not see any sensitivity on the part of the Committee to segregate the claims and take quick decisions in respect of the claims in regards to the students.

In this case, we find fault of the petitioner also, as he has approached us in the month of September 2024 and to be the precise on 25/09/2024 when he had already lost his seat on account of non-production of validity certificate. We therefore, are not in a position to render any assistance to the petitioner, except making a request to the Committee that it shall give preference to the claim of the petitioner and merely on the pretext that it has 260 matters pending before it, the case of the petitioner shall not be deferred and we expect the Committee to take a decision, within a period of two months from today.

With the aforesaid directions, the writ petition stands disposed of.

( ABHAY J. MANTRI, J. ) ( BHARATI DANGRE, J. ) KOLHE