1 FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH : NAGPUR. WRIT PETITION NO.1154/2008. Jitendra Mohadikar ..vs.. State of Mah. and others. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Office Notes, office Memoranda of Coram Court's or Judge's appearances, Court's orders or directions order and Registrar's order. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= CORAM: D.D.SINHA and C.L.PANGARKAR,JJ. DATE : 9th June, 2008. 1. Heard Mr.R.R.Shrivastava, Advocate for the petitioner and Mr.Nitin Sambre, Government Pleader for the State. 2. The learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the grievance of the petitioner is in respect of the composition of the Caste Scrutiny Committee which has verified the caste claim of the petitioner. It is contended that the Committee has not been validly constituted since Research Officer did not possess the requisite qualification in view of the Government Resolution dated 9/7/1998. It is contended that as per the said Government Resolution, essential qualification 2 for the Research Officer is post graduate degree in Anthropology and Sociology. It is submitted that in the instant case, the Research Officer is only B.Com. and therefore the composition of the Committee is bad in law and order passed by the Caste Scrutiny Committee dated 14/2/2008 is invalid and cannot be sustained in law. 3. Mr.Sambre, Government Pleader, on the other hand, has submitted that as per the Government Resolution, the Committee for Caste Verification should consist of three members, those are – Vice Chairman, Member Secretary and Research Officer. It is submitted that in the instant case, so far as the Member Secretary is concerned, Mr.Chavan has requisite qualification i.e. Post graduate degree in sociology and therefore, the constitution of the Committee and the qualification of the Members of the Committee are consistent with the Government Resolution dated 9/7/2008. It is contended that the title of the Government Resolution only demonstrates that the posts of the Research Officer are required to be created and therefore the contention of the petitioner based on the same is misconceived. 4. We have considered the contention 3 raised by respective counsel. In the instant case, it is not in dispute that the Member Secretary does have a requisite qualification and is also Senior Research Officer. In that view of the matter, contentions canvassed by the learned counsel for the petitioner in this regard being inconsistent with the Government Resolution are rejected. There is no requirement under the Government Resolution to have two Research Officers in the Committee and since Mr.Chavan has a post graduate degree in Sociology, who is the member of the Committee, the constitution of the Committee cannot be said to be invalid in law. It appears that Mr.Chavan has also acted as Senior Research Officer in another Committee, however, that by itself does not render the composition of caste scrutiny in question invalid in law. The petition suffers from lack of merit. Hence, same is dismissed. JUDGE JUDGE. chute 4