Kambli 1 WP3304.08 IN THE HIGH COURT JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.3304 OF 2008 ... 1.Jyoti Sudam Chavan 2.Deepali Sudam Chavan ...Petitioners v/s. 1.The State of Maharashtra 2.The Scheduled Tribe Caste Certificate Scrutiny Committee 3.Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation Education Board ...Respondents ... Mr.R.K.Mendadkar for the Petitioners. Mr.V.A.Gangal Special Counsel with Mr.C.R.Sonawane, AGP for State. ... CORAM: D.K.DESHMUKH & N.D.DESHPANDE,JJ. DATED: 22nd November,2010 P.C.: 1. By this petition the Petitioners challenges the order passed by the Scrutiny Committee dated 25-4-2008 holding that the Kambli 2 WP3304.08 claim of the Petitioners that they belong to Thakar, Schedule Tribe is not valid. 2. The matter had come to this court twice in the past and it was remanded back for fresh scrutiny to the Scrutiny Committee. It appears that, thereafter, after the matter was remanded second time, a fresh Vigilance Cell Report was called by the Scrutiny Committee. The Scrutiny Committee has now given detail reason for its finding. The Report of the Vigilance Cell shows that the great grand-father of the Petitioners was Ganpati Daulat Bhat. There is an entry about his death dated 10-12-1924 and in that entry his caste is mentioned as “Bhat” and his surname is also mentioned as “Bhat”. It is also found that the grand-father of the Petitioner changed his surname from Bhat to Chavan and Gazette Notification to that Kambli 3 WP3304.08 effect was issued in 2001. The Vigilance Cell has also found that when the great grand- father of the Petitioners was admitted in Primary School, the caste was mentioned as “Bhat”. Thereafter, he made an application for changing the same and in stead of “Bhat”, then his caste was mentioned as “Thakar”. Thus, there is evidence available on record to show that the caste of the great grand- father of the Petitioners is “Bhat” and not “Thakur”. Once it is not disputed that in 1924 the caste of the Petitioners’ great grand-father was mentioned as “Bhat” and not “Thakur”, there is no question of either the grand-father of the Petitioners or the Petitioners belonging to any other caste, but Bhat. The Petitioners have, it appears, been successfully misleading the court and the authorities so far. The Petition has no substance. It is dismissed. The Petitioners Kambli 4 WP3304.08 are directed to pay as and by way of costs of this petition Rs.10,000/- to the Scrutiny Committee. (D.K.Deshmukh,J.) (N.D.Deshpande, J.)