- 1 - IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.3554/2009 Swapnil Vishwanath Totawar. ...Petitioner.. Versus The State of Maharashtra & others. ...Respondents... ..... Shri P.V. Jadhavar, Advocate for petitioner. Shri K.J. Ghute Patil, AGP for respondent nos.1 & 3. Shri M.S. Deshmukh, Advocate for respondent no.2. ..... CORAM: P.V. HARDAS & R.K. DESHPANDE,JJ. DATE: 25.06.2009 PER COURT: 1] This petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India impugns the order passed by the Sub Divisional Officer, Degloor, dated 5.3.2009 rejecting the application of the petitioner for issuance of a certificate as belonging to Mannerwarlu scheduled tribe. The petitioner heavily relied upon the - 2 - validity granted to Pravin Ramlu Totawar and Kum.Sapana Sureshrao Totawar. The aforesaid persons are said to be the cousins of the petitioner. Because of the rejection of his application by the Sub Divisional Officer, the petitioner preferred an appeal, which also came to be dismissed by the scrutiny committee. 2] With the assistance of the learned counsel for the parties, we have perused the genealogies, which are annexed to this petition, which are said to have been produced before the Sub Divisional Officer, Degloor. The first genealogy in respect of Pravin is at page no.21. This genealogy does not disclose how Sapana is said to be related, though the petitioner claims Sapana to be his cousin. The second genealogy, which the petitioner has annexed in support of establishing his relationship with Sapana Sureshrao Totawar does not show the presence of Pravin. In the light of such discrepant genealogies, we can not fault the reasoning of the Sub Divisional Officer in rejecting the application of the petitioner and consequently dismissal of the appeal by the scrutiny committee. However, the petitioner is at liberty to apply afresh before the Sub Divisional Officer for issuance of a caste certificate by producing appropriate document. 3] Writ petition is accordingly dismissed summarily with no order as to costs with the aforesaid liberty. (R.K. Deshpande,J.) (P.V. Hardas, J.) ndk/c2560927