HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PEITITON No. 11041 OF 2002 Dated 27th January, 2010 Between: V. Hemasree ………Petitioner And Joint Collector, Madana Palli Division, Madanapalli, (P.O), Chittoor District and another ………..Respondents Counsel for the petitioner : Sri K. Suresh Kumar Reddy Counsel for the respondents : Assistant Government Pleader for Social Welfare The Court made the following ORDER: In this writ petition, the grievance of the petitioner is that the respondents have not been issuing caste certificate showing her as belonging to BC-A category. At the hearing, Sri K. Suresh Kumar Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that on two occasions viz., on 21-06-2002 and 09-08-2002, this Court issued interim directions to the respondents to dispose of the petitioner’s representation dated 21-04- 2002 for issuing the caste certificate. The learned counsel further submitted that he has not received instructions from the petitioner whether any caste certificate has been issued in her favour in pursuance of the said directions. However, in the counter affidavit filed by the Joint Collector, Chittoor it is inter alia stated that in obedience to the directions of this Court in Writ Petition No. 3305 of 2002, the Sub-Collector, Madanapalli directed respondent No.2 to issue appropriate endorsement and accordingly, by order dated 12-04-2002, respondent No.2 rejected the petitioner’s application. Respondent No.1 also stated in the counter affidavit the reasons which disentitled the petitioner to obtain the caste certificate showing her as belonging to Agnikulakshatriya. No reply affidavit has been filed by the petitioner. Having regard to the reasons contained in the counter affidavit, the petitioner’s claim for issuance of a caste certificate as belonging to Agnikulakshatriya has been rejected. If the petitioner is aggrieved by the said order, she has a right to file an appeal under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh (Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes) Regulation of Issue of Community Certificates Act, 1993 and the rules made thereunder. In view of the same, the writ petition is dismissed with liberty to the petitioner to avail the said remedy, if she so desires. C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated: 27th January, 2010 ks