dmt 1 wp8753-11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 8753 OF 2011 Bhushan Avinash Pawar. .. Petitioner. versus The Pune Vidyardhi Griha & Ors. .. Respondents. ..... Mr. Anil Kumar Patil for the Petitioner. Mr. Sameer N. Patil for Respondent Nos. 2, 3 & 5. ...... CORAM : DR.D.Y.CHANDRACHUD & A. A. SAYED, JJ. 21 October 2011. P.C. : The Petitioner claims to belong to Kunbi community and has obtained admission to the B.E. Degree Course with the First Respondent. The Petitioner is presently a student of the third semester having completed the first year. The Petitioner submitted an application for the caste validity certificate to the dmt 2 wp8753-11 Divisional Caste Scrutiny Committee, Pune in 2008-09. The Petitioner has been admitted by the First Respondent in September 2010. The Scrutiny Committee has still not disposed of the application. In the meantime, the Petitioner has been informed by the First Respondent on the directions of the Second Respondent that the admission would be cancelled on failure to submit a caste validity certificate. The appropriate direction in these proceedings would be that the Scrutiny Committee, the Third Respondent, must take an expeditious decision on the application for a caste validity certificate and that in the meantime the admission of the Petitioner should not be disturbed. Accordingly, the following order is passed : (i) The Third Respondent is directed to decide upon the caste claim of the Petitioner and to take a decision expeditiously and in any event within a period of four months from today; (ii) In the meantime until a decision is taken by dmt 3 wp8753-11 the Third Respondent, the admission of the Petitioner shall not be disturbed for failure to submit a validity certificate and the Petitioner would be permitted to appear for the examination. (iii) In the event that the caste claim of the Petitioner is rejected, the Petitioner shall not claim any equity and all the benefits which have accrued would stand revoked. 2. The Petition is accordingly disposed of. 3. The parties to act on an authenticated copy of this order. (Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud, J.) (A. A. Sayed, J.)