Ewa<$m Miwaa air: gmwmwm mahN ,£_zw__g,,, a‘ ._wm,_‘m; ‘ W HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR S.B: Hon’ble Shri Prashant Kunmr Mishra VVrit Petition gS) No. 871/2011 Agpearance: Shri Rajendra Patel? counsel for the petitionen Shri Y.S. Thakur. Deputy Advocatc Genéral for the State. WRIT PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 226/227 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA ORAL ORDER (14.02201 l) Vide order dated 16/1 1/2010 the petitioner has been appointed as Assistant Grade-III in the office of Collector (Tribal Develbpment Branch) Bastar. One of the conditions in the letter of appointment is that the petitioner shall submit a duly verified caste status certificate within a period of three months, failing which steps shall be taken to cancel the appointment. M(2) Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the respondent/authoriw particularly respondent No.5 is asking for documents in relation to the petitioner’s family for the year 1950 and therefore direction may be issued to the concerned authority to issue the caste status certificate on the basis of document available with the ”'7” MIT} petition. 1 (3) Verification and issuance of caste status certificate is governed K/under the orders of Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of Kumari l l PETITIONER : Ku. Geeta Tandi Versus RESPONDENTS State Madhuri Patil and another Vs. Additional Commissioner, Tribal Development and others (1 994) 6 SCC 241. (4) The authority concerned is expected to consider petitioner’s case regarding issuance of caste status certificate in View of law laid o down by theHon’ble Supreme Court, however no direction can be issued contrary to the law laid down by the Hon’ble Supreme Court. (5) In vie"w of the above, this petition is disposed of with a direction to the petitioner to appear before respondent No.5 and submit duly filled up application form along with all. necessary documents for verification of caste status certificate and on such application being submitted the said authority shall proceed to verify and issue caste status certificate to the petitioner in accordance with law within a period of three months thereafter. (6) With the above observation, the petition stands disposed of. Sdl- Prashant Kumar Mishra Judge