1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.5609 OF 2009 Pramod Laxman Shinde ..Petitioner V/s. The State of Maharashtra & ors ..Respondents Mr.R.K.Mendadkar, Advocate, for the petitioner Mr.Vinay Masurkar, Government Pleader, for the State CORAM : S.B.MHASE & R.M.SAVANT, JJ. DATE : 1ST OCTOBER, 2009 P.C. . Rule with consent of the parties made, returnable forthwith and heard. 2. The petitioner claims social status as Thakar Scheduled Tribe. His Caste claim is pending before the respondent No.2  Caste Scrutiny Committee since the year 2006. He has been appointed on a reserved post with the respondent No.3. The Caste claim is pending for a long time 2 and respondent No.3 has issued a direction that it should be produced otherwise he would be reverted from the post where he is promoted. Under these circumstances, the petitioner is seeking the directions to the Caste Scrutiny Committee that it should decide his claim within a stipulated period. Since the matter is pending before the Caste Scrutiny Committee, we direct the Caste Scrutiny Committee to dispose of the application filed by the petitioner under Section 6 of the Maharashtra Caste Certificate Act, 2001, within a period of 12 weeks from date. By this time, if the Vigilance Cell Report is not completed it should be completed forthwith and if it is adverse it must be informed to the petitioner. After so intimating the petitioner and given an opportunity to the petitioner to represent against it the matter shall be disposed of within the stipulated period. Respondent No.3 is hereby directed not to demote the petitioner for a period of 12 weeks. 3 3. The above Writ Petition is disposed of by making the Rule absolute in the aforesaid terms. ( R.M.SAVANT, J.) ( S.B.MHASE, J. )