WP(C) 890/2008 BEFORE HON’BLE MR JUSTICE HN SARMA Heard Mr. N. Dutta, learned Sr. counsel for the petitioner, Mrs. VL Sinha, learn ed State counsel appearing for the official respondents and Mr. MU Mahmood, lear ned counsel appearing for the Election Commissioner. The grievance as projected by the petitioner in this writ petition is that the p etitioner is an elected member of the Rajyeswarpur Zilla Parishad under Hailakan di Zilla Parishad. The result of the said election was declared on 14/15th Febru ary, 2008 and the petitioner was declared elected as one of the members. In ter ms of Rule 61 (3) of the Assam Panchayat (Constitution) Rules, 1995, the offic e of the President of the Hailakandi Zilla Parishad has been reserved for woman and for Scheduled Caste vide Notification No. PDA 474/2007/25 dated 20th Februa ry, 2008. The case of the petitioner is that she, being the member of the Scheduled Caste of the State of Assam of Bania Community, applied for issuance of necessary Sch eduled Caste certificate before the Chairman Sub-Divisional Board for Scheduled Caste, Hailakandi who is the authority to issue such certificate and after issua nce of the certificate it has to be countersigned by the concerned Deputy Commis sioner, Hailakandi. The petitioner, in order to obtain such certificate, has fil ed necessary application before the Board on 18.2.08 but the authority has not t aken any action to issue the same as yet. Subsequently, the petitioner filed ano ther reminder vide application dated 6.3.08 but the same got no importance at t he hands of the authority. Mr. Dutta, learned Sr. counsel submits that the first meeting of the Zilla Paris had is scheduled to be held on 24.3.08 and on that date necessary selection/el ection of the President of the Zilla Parishad would be held and the petitioner b eing the member of the Scheduled Caste community and one of the aspirants of the office of the President of the Zilla Parishad and in such a situation if the C ast certificate is not issued in favour of the petitioner on or before 24.3.08, her entire endevour would be frustrated. It is further stated on behalf of the p etitioner that she is a member of the Scheduled Cast community and in fact such certificate has also been issued to her father and other brothers and there is no reason not to issue such certificate in her favour. In view of the above situation and after hearing the learned counsel for the par ties, I propose to dispose of this writ petition at the motion stage itself. Ac cordingly, this writ petition stands disposed of with the direction that the Ch airman, Sub-Divisional Board, Hailakandi shall take up the application filed by the petitioner on 18.2.08 for issuance of necessary Scheduled Caste certificate after causing necessary enquiry and shall dispose of the same as early as possib le at any rate prior to 24.3.08. In the event of issuing such certificate in fav our of the petitioner, the respondent No.2, the Deputy Commissioner, Hailakandi shall also pass appropriate order thereon, he being the countersigning authorit y of such certificate within the aforesaid period. This disposes of the writ petition.