1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.5719 OF 2010 Kavita Chandrapal Aspatwar, Age20 years, Occ. Education, R/o Degloor, Taluka Degloor, District Nanded. ... PETITIONER VERSUS 1. Scheduled Tribe Certificate Scrutiny Committee, Aurangabad Division, Aurangabad, through its Member Secretary 2 Sub-Divisional Officer, Degloor, Taluka Degloor, District Nanded. (Copies of respondent Nos.1 & 2 to be served in the office of Government Pleader, Bombay High Court, Bench at Aurangabad) ... RESPONDENTS ..... Shri S.S. Phatale, Advocate for the petitioner Shri P.S. Patil, Advocate for respondent No.1. Shri K.J. Ghute Patil, A.G.P. for respondent No.2 ..... W I T H WRIT PETITION NO.5721 OF 2010 Pooja Chandrapal Aspatwar, Age 15 years (Minor), through natural guardian i.e. father Chandrapal Ramlu Aspatwar, Age 43 years, Occ. Agri., R/o Degloor, Taluka Degloor, District Nanded. ... PETITIONER 2 VERSUS 1. Scheduled Tribe Certificate Scrutiny Committee, Aurangabad Division, Aurangabad, through its Member Secretary 2 Sub-Divisional Officer, Degloor, Taluka Degloor, District Nanded. (Copies of respondent Nos.1 & 2 to be served in the office of Government Pleader, Bombay High Court, Bench at Aurangabad) ... RESPONDENTS ..... Shri S.S. Phatale, Advocate for the petitioner Shri R.P. Phatke, Advocate for respondent No.1. Shri K.J. Ghute Patil, A.G.P. for respondent No.2 ..... CORAM: P.V. HARDAS & N.D. DESHPANDE, JJ. DATED: 1st July, 2010 ORAL JUDGMENT (PER HARDAS, J.): 1. Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. With the consent of learned counsel for the parties, these petitions are heard finally at the stage of admission. 2. Since the petitioners are related inter-se and seek the same relief, we consider it appropriate to decide these two petitions finally by this common judgment. 3. In both the petitions, the orders passed by the Sub- 3 Divisional Officer, Degloor are impugned as well as the decision rendered by the Scrutiny Committee in appeal. The petitioners in the respective petitions had submitted application before the Sub- Divisional Officer for issuance of caste certificate as belonging to Mannerwarlu - Scheduled Tribe. The applications came to be rejected on various grounds, which at present are not germane. 4. Our attention has been invited by the learned counsel for the petitioners to the judgment rendered by the Division Bench of this Court in Writ Petition No.5172/2009, dated 7.8.2009 (Ashvini Chandrapal Aspatwar Vs. Sub-Divisional Officer, Degloor, District Nanded & anr.), to which one of us (P.V. Hardas, J.) was a member. By the said judgment, the Division Bench had allowed the Writ Petition filed by the sister of the present petitioners and had directed issuance of the caste certificate to the petitioner therein. 5. In that light of the matter, therefore, we allow the present petitions and quash and set aside the impugned orders and direct the Sub-Divisional Officer, Degloor to issue caste certificates to the petitioners forthwith. 6. Rule is thus made absolute on the above terms with no order as to costs. (N.D. DESHPANDE, J.) (P.V. HARDAS, J.)