(1) WP 6142.11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.6142 OF 2011 Rajesh S/o Budha Bagul PETITIONER VERSUS The State of Maharashtra and ors. RESPONDENTS ..... Mr. U.R. Awate, Advocate for the Petitioner. Mr. K.G. Patil, A.G.P. for the Respondent-State. Mr. Rahul S. Pawar, Advocate for the respondent no.3 None present for respondent no.4 though served. ..... CORAM : B.R. GAVAI AND M.T. JOSHI, JJ. DATED : 14TH NOVEMBER, 2011 ORAL ORDER: 1. Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. The Petition is heard finally, by consent of the parties. 2. The petitioner has approached this Court being aggrieved by the order passed by the respondent no.3, thereby rejecting the Application filed by the present petitioner for changing the entry with respect to his caste from Tokre Koli to Mahadeo Koli. 3. It is the case of the petitioner that the petitioner's real brother has been granted validity (2) WP 6142.11 certificate, certifying him to be belonging to Mahadeo Koli Scheduled Tribe. 4. The Application is rejected basically on the ground that the authorities do not have authority to change the caste after the petitioner had left the school. This Court vide order dated 8.2.2010 passed in Writ Petition no. 704 of 2010 has held that as per Government Resolution dated 16.03.1983 r/w. Appendix Six of the Secondary Schools Code, the authorities are vested with the power to sanction the application made by the parties for correcting the entries either with regard to date of birth or caste. 5. In that view of the matter, we find that the order passed by respondent no.3 is not correct. We therefore allow the Petition by directing respondent no.3 to consider the claim of the petitioner on the basis of the material placed on record by the petitioner and forward the same to the respondent no.2 within a period of three (3) weeks from today. On receipt of the proposal from respondent no.3, respondent no.2 shall take decision in accordance with law, within a period of two (2) weeks (3) WP 6142.11 thereafter. The necessary entries after the orders are passed by the respondent no.2, will be recorded within a period of two (2) weeks from the date of passing of the order by the respondent no.2. Rule is made absolute in the above terms. Sd/- Sd/- [M. T. JOSHI, J.] [B. R. GAVAI, J.] arp/