1 lgc IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 7047 OF 2009 Pradeep Sakharam Wadekar : Petitioner versus The State of Maharashtra & ors. : Respondents. Mr. N R Walawalkar, Sr. Advocate with Mr S G Kurup for the Petitioner. Mr V P Malvankar, AGP, for the Respondent Nos.1 and 2. Mr Y S Jahagirdar, Sr. Advocate a/w Mr Jay Bhatia for the Respondent No.3. Mr M M Malvankar for Respondent No.4. Mr S B Shetye for Respondent No.5. CORAM : S B MHASE & R M SAVANT, JJ. DATE : 20th August 2009 P.C. 1. Heard. Writ Petition No.6553 of 2007 filed by the present Petitioner is already pending. Rule has been issued in the said Writ Petition. There is validity certificate granted in favour of the Respondent No.3 herein by the Scrutiny Committee which the Petitioner has challenged by filing the said Petition. Thereafter it appears that the Petitioner made an application under Section 7 of the Maharashtra Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes, De-notified Tribes (Vimukta Jatis) Nomadic Tribes, Other Backward Classes & Special Backward Category 2 (Regulation of Issuance and Verification of) Caste Certificate Act, 2000. The learned Senior counsel for the Petitioner Mr.Walavalkar states that in the said Petition also the Petitioner has raised the issue based on Section 7 of the said Act. The learned Senior Counsel further states that a decision has been rendered by this Court in Writ Petition No.3739 of 2008 by order dated 12 th February 2009 wherein the position as regards the powers of the Committee have been explained. In the light of the said decision an application was made by the Petitioner, the said application has been rejected by the Scrutiny Committee which has been challenged in the instant Petition. 2. What we find is that so far as the present Petition is concerned, the issues involved herein can be agitated by the Petitioner in the pending Petition on the basis of the subsequent facts that have evolved. We are therefore of the view that there is no warrant to entertain the present Writ Petition which is accordingly disposed of. [R.M.SAVANT, J] [S.B.MHASE, J]