1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.6307 OF 2010 Gangadhar s/o Tulshiram Totewad, Age : 37 yrs., Occ. Service, R/o Wadwani, Tq. Wadwani, Dist. Beed ..PETITIONER VERSUS 1. State of Maharashtra Through it Secretary Rural Development Department M.S. Mantralay, Mumbai 2. Schedule Tribe Certificate Scrutiny Committee Aurangabad Division, Aurangabad 3. Chief Executive Officer Z.P.Beed, Tq. & Dist. Beed ..RESPONDENTS Mr S.A. Nagargoje, Advocate for the petitioner; Mr S.K. Tambe, A.G.P. for respondent no.1; Mr P.S. Patil, Advocate for respondent no.2; Mr N.L. Jadhav, Advocate for respondent no.3. CORAM : P.V. HARDAS AND N.D. DESHPANDE, JJ DATE : 16th July, 2010 ORAL JUDGMENT [ PER P.V. HARDAS , J ] 2 Rule. Rule returnable forthwith. With the consent of learned Counsel for the parties this petition is heard finally at the stage of admission. 2. The petitioner came to be appointed on a post which was reserved for Scheduled Tribe category candidates. Undisputedly the petitioner had not taken steps for verification of his caste certificate and accordingly by order dated 14.5.2010 the services of the petitioner came to be terminated. However, order of termination came to be stayed by respondent no.3 by order dated 19.5.2010 for a period of two months. Undisputedly also on 9.7.2010 the petitioner has submitted the original caste certificate along with other documents for forwarding the same to the Scrutiny Committee for verification. 3. In that light of the matter, therefore, we allow this petition and quash and set aside the impugned order dated 14.5.2010 and direct respondent no.3 to forward the caste certificate of the petitioner to respondent no.2 - Scrutiny Committee within four weeks from today. The petitioner to appear before the Scrutiny Committee on 23.8.2010 and we direct the Scrutiny Committee to decide the caste/tribe claim of the petitioner within one year of 23.8.2010. In the meantime no adverse action be taken against the petitioner solely on the ground that the petitioner has not 3 produced the validity certificate. 4. Rule is thus made absolute on the above terms with no order as to costs. ( N.D. DESHPANDE ) ( P.V.HARDAS ) JUDGE JUDGE amj/wp6307.10