WP 600/11 1 FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.600/2011 Chetan Shivdas Chitte V/s The State & others. _______________________________________________________ Office Notes, Office | Memoranda of Coram, | Court's or Judge's orders appearances, Court's | orders or directions | and Registrar's orders | Shri A.D. Pawar, Advocate for petitioner. Shri K.M. Suryawanshi, AGP for respondent nos.1 & 3. SHri R.P. Phatake, Advocate for respondent no.2. CORAM: D.B. BHOSALE & S.B. DESHMUKH, JJ. Date: 12.07.2011 Heard learned counsel for the respective parties. By this writ petition, the petitioner has impugned the orders passed by respondent nos.2 & 3 dated 23.6.2010 and 27.10.2009 respectively whereby his application for issuance of “caste certificate” has been rejected. The petitioner claims that he belongs WP 600/11 2 to Tokre Koli - scheduled tribe. He had applied for caste certificate to the Sub Divisional Officer. His application was rejected by order dated 27.10.2009. Against this order, the petitioner preferred appeal before the respondent - scrutiny committee. The scrutiny committee also rejected the appeal vide order dated 23.6.2010. In paragraph 5 of the order, the scrutiny committee has observed thus: "Regarding the merit of the case we observe that in the school leaving certificate of the appellant himself his caste is entered as Hindu Koli on 7-7-2005. In the school leaving certificate of his father his caste is entered as Hindu Koli on 26-3-1974. In the another copy of school leaving certificate in respect of his grand father, his caste is entered as Koli on 27-11-1919. In the school leaving certificate of another relative Shri Chaitram Ananda Koli, his caste is entered as Hindu Koli on 1-12-1948. In 7/12 extracts of land record in respect of his grandfather and grandfather's brother there is no entry of tribal land. All these documents clearly stand contrary to the claim made by the appellant." From bare perusal of the reasons WP 600/11 3 recorded by the scrutiny committee, it is clear that the petitioner could not and did not produce any document in support of his claim. As a matter of fact, all basic documents on the basis of which one can claim that he belongs to a particular caste do not support the petitioner's claim. In our opinion, the scrutiny committee has rightly dismissed the appeal for the reasons recorded in the order. No interference in writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India is called for. Hence, the petition fails and dismissed as such. (S.B. Deshmukh, J.) (D.B. Bhosale, J.) Dt/- 12.07.2011 ndk/c127119