1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH : NAGPUR WRIT PETITION NO. 655 OF 2011 (Ku. Pooja Hemant Gandole vs. Sinhgad Institute of Business Administration & Research & Ors.) Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. CORAM : B.P. DHARMADHIKARI & P.D. KODE, JJ. JUNE 28, 2011. Heard Shri Tushar Darda, learned counsel for the petitioner and Shri Sonare, learned AGP for respondent No. 3. Nobody had appeared for respondents No. 1 & 2, though they are served. The short prayer of the petitioner is to direct Respondent No. 1 to submit his application for verification of caste claim along with necessary documents either to Respondent No. 2 or Respondent No. 3. Shri Sonare, learned AGP has invited attention to the procedure described in para 4 of the affidavit reply filed vide Stamp No. 5132 of 2011. He states that application in appropriate format is required to be made by the petitioner to his employer and then that employer is expected to forward the same to Special District Social Welfare Officer within a period of eight days. That officer then has to forward immediately to concerned Caste Scrutiny Committee. 2 Here, Special District Social Welfare Officer, Pune, is not party and it is not known whether the employer of the present petitioner viz., Respondent No. 1 has forwarded the caste claim to that authority. The petitioner has joined Caste Scrutiny Committee at Pune and at Nagpur as party respondents. The petition contains a statement that the application in necessary format has been filled in and handed over to Respondent No. 1. In this situation, as Respondent No. 1 has chosen not to appear and as we are not passing any orders to its prejudice, we direct Respondent No. 1 to forward that application to Special District Social Welfare Officer at Pune immediately and that officer shall thereafter forward the same to appropriate Caste Scrutiny Committee in accordance with law for its due verification. Writ Petition is, thus, partly allowed. Respondent No. 1 shall forward the application of the petitioner within a period of eight days from the date of presentation of this order by the petitioner to it. Rule is made absolute accordingly. However, there shall be no order as to costs. JUDGE JUDGE *GS.