skc 1 WP-3923-11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 3923 OF 2011 Gauri Shekhar Telavane ..Petitioner versus Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik & Ors. ..Respondents Ms. Shivangi Vengurlekar i/b. Mr. Rajeev Matkar for Petitioner. Mrs. M. P. Thakur - Assistant Government Pleader for Respondent Nos. 2 and 3. CORAM : D. D. SINHA AND SMT. V. K. TAHILRAMANI, JJ. 25 August 2011 P.C. : Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for the State - respondent nos. 2 and 3. 2. Counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner was given admission in the First Year Physiotherapy Course in respondent no.4 college in the month of August 2010 from OBC Category. The caste certificate of the petitioner thereafter was referred to the Caste Scrutiny Committee for skc 2 WP-3923-11 verification of the caste claim of the petitioner. It is submitted that the verification proceedings are pending before the Caste Scrutiny Committee and therefore prayed that direction be given to the Caste Scrutiny Committee to take a decision in this regard in accordance with law within a stipulated period. 3. In view of the above referred facts, we dispose of the writ petition with direction to the Caste Scrutiny Committee to decide the caste claim of the petitioner in accordance with law and procedure applicable in this regard on its own merits within a period of four months from the date of communication of this Order. 4. Writ petition is disposed of accordingly. (D. D. SINHA, J.) (SMT. V. K. TAHILRAMANI, J.)