1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.7036 OF 2009 Dattatray Shivram Bhujbal ..Petitioner V/s. Social Welfare Officer & ors ..Respondents WITH WRIT PETITION NO.7037 OF 2009 Ramdas Murlidhar Medankar ..Petitioner V/s. Social Welfare Officer & ors ..Respondents Mr.U.B.Nighot, Advocate, for the petitioner Mr.P.P.Kakade, Assistant Government Pleader, for the respondents CORAM : S.B.MHASE & R.M.SAVANT, JJ. DATE : 18TH AUGUST, 2009 P.C. . Mr.U.B.Nighot, the learned counsel for the petitioners states that the enquiry under Section 6 of the Maharashtra Scheduled Caste, Schduled Tribe, De-notified Tribes (Vimukta Jatis), Nomadic Tribes, 2 Other Backward Classes and Special Backward Category (Regulation of Issuance and Verification of Caste Certificate Act, 2000. (Maharashtra Act 23 of 2001) has been completed by the Scrutiny Committee. It is further stated that the Scrutiny Committee has decided the matter but the decision is not being communicated. We direct the Scrutiny Committee that if they have decided the matter then they shall communicate the decision to the petitioners within a period of 15 days after the receipt of the Order. If the Scrutiny Committee wants to contend that the matter has not been decided but hearing is completed and the matter is awaited for Orders then those Orders are directed to be passed within a period of three weeks from date and communicate the said Orders to the Petitioners immediately. 2. The above Writ Petitions stand disposed of. ( R.M.SAVANT, J.) ( S.B.MHASE, J. ) 3