1 UNREPORTED IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD. WRIT PETITION NO.2036 OF 1994. Santosh Dhondiramsingh Rajput, Age minor, Occ.Student, U/g of Dhondiramsingh Dhannusingh Rajput, Age major, Occ.Service, R/o Deshpande Galli, Vaijapur,Dist. Aurangabad. ... Petitioner. Versus 1. The State of Maharashtra 2. Director, Social Welfare, Maharashtra State and Chairman Scrutiny Committee, Pune. 3. S.G.G. College of Engineering, Nanded, through it's Principal. ... Respondents. ... Mr.Pradeep Deshmukh, advocate for the petitioner. Mr.N.B.Patil, Asstt.Govt. Pleader for the State. ... CORAM : B.R.GAVAI AND : S.V.GANGAPURWALA,JJ. Date : 16.06.2010. 2 ORAL JUDGMENT (Per B.R.Gavai,J.) 1. By the present petition, the petitioner has approached this Court claiming for direction to the Respondent No.2 to issue Validity Certificate in favour of the petitioner certifying that the petitioner belongs to (Rajput Bhamta) which is notified as VJNT. The petitioner was required to approach this Court since he was seeking admission for the first year Engineering course and that though his claim belonging to Scheduled Tribe was verified by the Respondent No.2, the Validity Certificate was not issued to him. By an interim order, the petitioner was directed to be considered for admission to first year Engineering course from a post reserved for VJNT category. 2. During pendency of the present petition, the claim of the petitioner's real younger brother has been validated by the Respondent No.2 Committee. The petitioner has filed copy of affidavit of his father on record along with a Certificate issued by the Committee 3 dated 29.6.1996. Since the real brother of the petitioner has been held to be belonging to VJNT, we find that the claim of the petitioner also needs to be validated. 3. We, therefore, declare that the petitioner belongs to "Rajput Bhamta" which is notified as 'Vimukta Jatis'. The Respondent NO.2 is directed to issue the necessary Validity Certificate in favour of the petitioner. Rule made absolute in above terms. There shall be no order as to costs. (S.V.GANGAPURWALA,J.) (B.R.GAVAI,J.) asp/office/wp203694