IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.9542 of 2011 Buchchi Devi wife of Ramesh Choupal, resident of Village Rasiari, P.O. Rasiari, Police Station Ghanshyampur, District- Darbhanga. . . . . . . Petitioner. Versus 1. The State of Bihar through Secretary, Department of General Administration, Patna. 2. District Magistrate, Darbhanga. 3. Circle Officer, Kiratpur, Darbhanga. 4. Block Development Officer, Kiratpur, Darbhanga. Respondents. ---------------------------------- 2/ 17.11.2011 In the instant writ application the petitioner prays for quashing the show cause notice bearing Memo no.310 dated 26.04.2011, issued by respondent no.4, Block Development Officer, Kiratpur, Darbhanga. The petitioner submits that he belongs to Chaupal caste and as such the Circle Officer, Kiratpur, Darbhanga rightly granted her certificate of Chaupal caste, which is one of the caste under the Schedule Caste category. Subsequently, Block Development Officer, Kiratpur has issued notice to the petitioner as to why her caste certificate be not cancelled by notice dated 26.04.2011, contained in Annexure-1. She submits that the Block Development Officer, Kiratpur would have no authority to issue show-cause notice. In my view, the petitioner should file her objection before the Block Development Officer, Kiratpur that he does not have jurisdiction to issue notice. The petitioner should file her show-cause within three weeks from today, thereafter the Block Development Officer, Kiratpur would proceed to dispose of the matter and 2 also consider the issue of jurisdiction raised by the petitioner. With the aforesaid liberty, this application is disposed of. Uday/ (Samarendra Pratap Singh, J.)