1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.1053 OF 2010 ... Dayanand Anglo Vedic (DAV) College Trust amd Management Society ...Petitioner v/s. The State of Maharashtra and ors. ...Respondents ... Mr.Sudhir Halli for the Petitioner. Mr.S.N.Patil, AGP for State. ... CORAM: D.K.DESHMUKH, & A.R.JOSHI, JJ DATED: 24th February,2010 P.C.: 1. The Petitioner-institution was given initially recommendation as minority institution. But because that recommendation 2 was given under a mistake that the trustees of the Petitioner reside in the State of Maharashtra. The trustees of the Petitioner are claiming to be belonging to linguistic minority because they are Hindi speaking people. But all the trustees of the Petitioner are residing in the area where majority language is Hindi. The authorities, therefore,have said that the Petitioner-trust cannot claim to be an institution belonging to linguistic minority in the State of Maharashtra. The learned Counsel appearing for the Petitioner submitted that as a certificate was granted on 11-6-2008 it could not have been withdrawn by the impugned order. 2. The submission is not well founded. Because it is the case of the Government that certificate was issued under a mistake. 3 In our opinion, therefore, the State Government had a right to correct that mistake. What is further pertinent to note is that the Petitioner itself returned the certificate which had been granted to the Petitioner. 3. Taking overall view of the matter, therefore, as admittedly the trustees of the Petitioner do not reside in the State of Maharashtra, where Hindi speaking people are a linguistic minority, the petitioner-trust cannot claim to be a minority institution. Petition is, therefore, rejected. (D.K.DESHMUKH, J.) (A.R.JOSHI, J.)