1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR WRIT PETITION NO. 4662 /2010 (Tulshiram Sadashiv Badlu vs. Joint Commissioner, Scheduled Tribes Caste Certificate Scrutiny Committee and another ) .................................................................................................................................................................... Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's order of directions and Registrar's orders ..................................................................................................................................................................... CORAM : D.D.SINHA & A.P.BHANGALE, JJ. DATED : 15th March, 2011. Heard Mr S.R. Narnaware, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mrs. S.W.Deshpande, learned counsel for respondent no.1 Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner was appointed as a Helper in respondent no.2-MSEB vide order of appointment dated 8.10.1999. Since the petitioner claims to belong to Scheduled Tribe (“Halba”), he has submitted his caste certificate along with documentary evidence in support thereof to respondent no.1. The respondent no.1, thereafter, forwarded the same to respondent no.1- Committee for verification and decision which is still pending. He, therefore, prayed that direction be given to the Scrutiny Committee to decide the same on its own merit within stipulated period and liberty may kindly be granted to the petitioner to make a representation to the employer against the order of termination. It is brought to the notice of this Court that in 2 spite of earlier directions given by this Court vide order dated 24.4.2009 in Writ Petition No. 2616 /2006 to the Scrutiny Committee to decide the caste claim of the petitioner within a period of six weeks, the Committee failed to comply with the said direction and, therefore, the petitioner is again required to file the present Writ Petition for the same direction. It is indeed unfortunate that in spite of our positive directions issued to the Scrutiny Committee, the Committee failed to obey the same. The casual attitude of the Committee is deprecated and we hope and trust that the Committee shall scrupulously follow the direction issued by this Court in future. In the circumstances, we direct the Respondent No.1-Committee to decide the caste claim of the petitioner which is pending since 2009 within a period of two months from the date of communication of this order. Writ Petition s disposed of. JUDGE JUDGE sahare