1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.5339 OF 2010 Chandrakant Shriram Thakur, Age years, Occ. Service, R/o C/o Onkar Sonu Thakur, Surbhi Nagar, Bhusawal, Taluka Bhusawal, District Jalgaon. ... PETITIONER VERSUS Scheduled Tribe Certificate Verification & Scrutiny Committee, Nandurbar Division, Nandurbar, through its Member Secretary ... RESPONDENT ..... Shri A.B. Madke, Advocate holding for Shri M.S. Deshmukh, Advocate for the petitioner Shri P.S. Patil, Advocate for respondent ..... CORAM: P.V. HARDAS & N.D. DESHPANDE, JJ. DATED: 21st June, 2010 ORAL JUDGMENT (PER HARDAS, J.) 1. Rule. Rule returnable forthwith. With the consent of learned counsel for the parties, this petition is heard finally at this stage. 2. The petitioner, by this petition under Article 226 of the 2 Constitution of India, prays for issuance of a writ directing the respondent/ Scrutiny Committee to decide the caste claim of the petitioner which is said to be pending since 1.10.2002. 3. According to the petitioner, the caste claim of the petitioner came to be submitted before the Scrutiny Committee at Nasik on 1.10.2002. Thereafter, the claim came to be transferred to the present Committee at Nandurbar in 2007 and since then the said claim is pending. Mr. P.S. Patil, learned counsel for the respondent/ Scrutiny Committee states that the report of the Vigilance Cell has been received and the Committee would be in a position to adjudicate the caste claim of the petitioner within three months. We accordingly allow this petition and direct the petitioner to appear before othe respondent/ Scrutiny Committee on 5/7/2010 and further direct the respondent/ Scrutiny Committee to decide the caste claim of the petitioner within six months of 5/7/2010. 4. Rule is thus made absolute on the above terms with no order as to costs. (N.D. DESHPANDE, J.) (P.V. HARDAS, J.)