IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR 55g? WRIT PETITION” [C] No. /2008 PETITIONER Ku.Suman Gadpale aged about 27 years, D/o Ram Nath Gadpale, R/o Bazarpara, Charama, Distt. Kanker (C.G) VERSUS RESPONDENTS 1. The State of Chhattisgarh, through Secretary its Secretary Tribal /'V Department, D.K. S. Bhawan, Raipur 2. Commissioner , Schedule Caste schedule Tribe Development Pandit Ravi Shankar Shukla University Campus Raipur, Chhattisgarh Caste Certificate Scrutiny Committee Through its Director. Adim Jati Anusandhan Evam Prashikshan Sansthan State of Chhattisgarh Pt. Ravi Shankar Shukla University Campus Rai'pur, Chhattisgarh y, WRIT PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 226 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA @ HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILA SPI IR WRIT PETITION (C) No. 5567 of 2008 Ku. Suman Gadpale. VERSUS The State of Chhattisgarh & Others. RESPONDENTS WRIT PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 226 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA SB: Hon’ble Shri Satish K. Agnihotri, J. Present: Shri Parag Kotecha, Advocate for the petitioner. Shri N.N.Roy, Panel Lawyer for the State/respondents. ORDER ORAL (Passed on 29t day of September, 2010) 1. By this petition, the petitioner seeks a direction to the respondent No. 3 to verify the caste certificate (Annexure P /1) of the petitioner issued by the Sub Divisional Offlcer (Revenue) Kanker, and issue the verification certificate in favour of the petitioner. 2. Learned counsel appearing for .the petitioner submits that the procedure as mandated by the Supreme Court in Kumari Madhuri Patil and another v. Addl. Commissioner, Tribal Development and othersl, reiterated in Director of Tribal Welfare, Government ofA.P. v. Laveti Giri and Anotherz, have not been complied with in its letter and spirit, and the respondent authorities are not verifying the social status certificate ofthe petitioner. 3. At the very outset, learned counsel appearing for the parties jointly and fairly submit that this case is squarely covered by the decision of 1 (1994) 6 SCC 241 s. 2 (1995) 4 SCC 32 \\ l ‘\ rg¥ ’ T—naJ1 this Court rendered in Dinesh Kumar Bhagoria v. State of Chhattisgarh & 0thers3 and other connected matters, wherein this Court after considering all the aspects of the matter and after considering the law laid down by the Supreme Court in umptee number of cases, in para 26 of the judgment and order, has made certain clarifications for verification of the caste certificate. 4. In View of foregoing, ‘the Committee is directed to verify the caste certificate (Annexure P./1) issued t0 the petitioner in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court rendered in Madhuri Patil (supra) & Laveti Girz‘ (supra) and further explained by this Court in Dinesh Kumar Bhagoria (supra) and other connected matters. . In the result, the writ petition is allowed to the extent indicated above. No order asto costs. Sd/- iSatish K. Agnihotri t Judge l i , i i t l 3 WP (S) No.3338 of2007 decided on l9-8~2010 n