1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH : NAGPUR. Writ Petition No.4680 of 2008 [Ibrahim Khan Mohd. Khan Vs. Scheduled Tribe Certificate Scrutiny Committee & ors.] Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. Mr. I.N. Choudhari, Adv., for the petitioner. Mr. S.M. Puranik, Adv., for respondent nos. 1 and 2. Mr. N.S. Khubalkar, AGP for respondent no.4. ----- CORAM : B.H. MARLAPALLE AND A.H. JOSHI, JJ. DATE : 23rd October,2008. Leave to amend. Learned AGP Mr. N.S. Khubalkar appears for the added respondent. ----- Heard Mr. I.N. Choudhary, learned counsel for the petitioner, who claims to belong to “Raj”, Scheduled Tribe, and this claim of social status has been referred to respondent no.1-Committee for verification. On 20th September, 2008, the said Committee passed an order, stating that one of its members – Shri V.S. Pinjarkar had also claimed the status of Raj, Scheduled Tribe, and his claim was rejected. Consequently, the said 2 Mr. Pinjarkar's case is pending before the Supreme Court and, therefore, the Committee observed that it was not desirable to decide the petitioner's tribe claim when the claim of one of its members was sub judice before the Apex Court. A similar case was brought before us in Writ Petition No. 4365 of 2008, and by our order dated 13th October, 2008, we directed to re- constitute the Committee, or refer the claim of the petitioner therein to the neighbouring Committee, so that it is adjudicated upon expeditiously. Hence we direct the Secretary, Department of Tribal Development, Govt. of Maharashtra, to re-constitute the respondent no.1-Committee, so as to adjudicate upon the petitioner's tribe claim and this shall be done within a period of two weeks from today. The re-constituted Committee or the alternate Committee, as the case may be, shall decide the petitioner's pending tribe verification claim as expeditiously as possible, and in any case, before 28th February, 2009. The impugned order dated 20th September, 2008 shall stand suspended till 28th February, 2009. 3 Petition is disposed of in terms of above directions. Writ to go forthwith. Judge Judge |Hedau|