1 aswp-9736-11 pdp IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 9736 OF 2011 Ms. Farhanaz Mohammad Akhtar Ansari .. Petitioner Vs. The State of Maharashtra and ors. .. Respondents Mr. Jayesh B. Kocheta for petitioner. Mr. C.R. Sonawane, AGP for respondent nos.1,2 and 5. Mr. D.A. Nalawade for respondent nos.3 and 4. CORAM: B. H. MARLAPALLE & SMT.NISHITA MHATRE, JJ. NOVEMBER 18, 2011. P.C. 1. Heard Mr. Kocheta, the learned counsel for the petitioner. 2. The petitioner came to be admitted in the first year of B.U.M.S. degree course with the respondent no.6 – College, which is affiliated to respondent no.3-University and the same admission was against a seat reserved for OBC for the academic year 2009-10. 3. The respondent – University on 22/7/2011 informed the respondent no.6 – College to forward/submit the required certificate to support the petitioner’s admission against a seat reserved for OBC. The 2 aswp-9736-11 petitioner thereafter claims to have submitted an application to the College to get her caste claim scrutinized by the Caste Certificate Scrutiny Committee No.3, Pune Division at Pune and the said application has been forwarded by the respondent – College to the said Committee vide its letter dated 20/9/2011. As per the petitioner her caste claim is pending for verification before the said Committee. 4. We direct the Committee (Respondent No.5) to verify the petitioner’s caste claim of belonging to “Muslim-Julaha” which is listed at Sr.No.57 in the list of Other Backward Classes as per the Resolution dated 27/1/1970 and as amended from time to time. The verification proceedings be completed as expeditiously as possible and in any case before 31st December 2011. Consequently we direct the respondent nos.3 and 4 to declare the petitioner’s result of the last examination she has appeared within one week from today. 5. With the aforesaid directions, petition stands disposed off. (SMT.NISHITA MHATRE, J.) (B. H. MARLAPALLE, J.)