{1} IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO.3018 OF 2009 Ramdas Shankar Yelpalwad R/o Vanjarwadi, Tq-Naigao, Dist-Nanded PETITIONER VERSUS 1. The State of Maharashtra Through Secretary, Tribal Development Department, Mantralaya, Mumbai 2. Scheduled Tribe Certificate Verification Committee, Aurangabad Through its Member Secretary, 3. The Sub Divisional Officer, Degloor, Dist-Nanded RESPONDENTS ....... Mr.A.S.Londhe, Advocate for petitioner Mr.V.B.Ghatge, AGP for respondents No.1 and 3 Mr.R.P.Phatke, Advocate for respondent No.2 ....... [CORAM : P.V.HARDAS, and A.V.POTDAR, J.J.] DATE : 24th July 2009 ORAL JUDGMENT (PER P.V.HARDAS, J.) : 1. Rule. Rule returnable forthwith. With the consent of learned counsel for the parties this petition is heard finally at the stage of admission. {2} 2. The petitioner’s application for issuance of certificate as belonging to Mannerwarlu Scheduled Tribe came to be rejected by the respondent authorities and the aforesaid rejection came to be confirmed by the Scrutiny Committee in appeal filed by the present petitioner. 3. Mr.Londhe, learned counsel for the petitioner, at the outset stated that the petitioner, Ramdas, is related to Akshay and Chandrakala, who are nephew and niece of the petitioner respectively. It is also stated before us by learned counsel for the petitioner that the caste claim of the real sister of the petitioner, by name Nirmala came to be validated by the Scrutiny Committee. Accepting the aforesaid statement that the petitioner is related to Chandrakala and Akshay, whose writ petitions for issuance of caste certificate are allowed by us today, we allow this petition and quash and set aside the impugned orders. We direct the Sub Divisional Officer, Degloor to issue caste certificate to the petitioner as belonging to Mannerwarlu Scheduled Tribe. This be done forthwith. 4. Rule is thus made absolute on the above terms with no order as to costs. [A.V.POTDAR, J.] [P.V.HARDAS, J.] drp/wp3018-09