gopi 1 wp-5739-11.sxw IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.5739 OF 2011 Smt. Satyawati Trimbakrao Gite ..Petitioner Vs. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. ..Respondents Mr. Laxman Deshmukh for the petitioner. Mr. S.N. Patil, AGP for respondent State. CORAM : MOHIT S. SHAH, C. J. AND GIRISH S. GODBOLE, J. 26 July 2011 PC: Rule, returnable forthwith. Learned AGP for respondent State waives service. 2. The petitioner applied for admission to two years degree Course of Post Basic B.Sc. (Nursing) for the academic year 2011-2012. Respondent No.3 included the petitioner’s name in the list of non- eligible candidate on two grounds. 3. Having heard the learned Counsel for the parties we find that there is no substance in either of the grounds. The petitioner had already produced along with her application the certificate issued by the Maharashtra Higher Secondary Education Board indicating the marks obtained by the petitioner at the H.S.C. Examination in each subject. There is no dispute about the petitioner’s eligibility. gopi 2 wp-5739-11.sxw 4. As regards the caste validity certificate, the petitioner had produced along with the application her caste certificate. The petitioner has also applied for caste validity certificate before the Caste Scrutiny Committee. The admission Rules also provide that if the caste certificate is produced, the candiate who secures admission must produce the caste validity certificate within the stipulated period after securing admission. In view of the above, the respondents are directed to consider the petitioner as eligible for admission to the two years degree Course of Post Basic B.Sc. (Nursing) for the year 2011-2012. 5. It is clarified that this direction is only for the limited purpose of considering the petitioner eligible for admission. Whether the petitioner is entitled to get admission under the NT-3 category will depend upon merits which will be decided by the concerned authority after treating the petitioner as eligible candidate in accordance with law. 6. Rule made absolute in the above terms. CHIEF JUSTICE GIRISH S. GODBOLE, J.