1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 6644 OF 2007 Miss Sonam Prakash Jangam ..... Petitioner. V/s The State of Maharashtra & Ors. ..... Respondents. ----- Mr. Sachin S. Punde for the Petitioner. Mr. A.H. Palekar AGP for the Respondents - State. ----- CORAM : D.K. DESHMUKH & V.M. KANADE, JJ. DATE : 8th January, 2008 P.C.: 1. By this Petition, the Petitioner challenges the order passed by the Caste Scrutiny Committee, holding that the Caste Certificate of the Petitioner, which shows him to be belonging to Beda Jangam Scheduled Caste is not valid. Admittedly, the Petitioner has not produced any pre- constitutional document which will indicate that the caste of his father or grand- father or any relative is recorded as Beda Jangam. The learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the Petitioner submitted that the matter should be remanded back because the inquiry by Vigilance Cell has not been made. In our opinion, the submission is not well founded as the Petitioner has not produced any document which relates to the period before framing of the Constitution. No fault can be found with the absence of any Vigilance Cell inquiry. We 2 have considered the judgment of the Supreme Court in Kumari Madhuri Patil and another Vs. Addl. Commissioner, Tribal Development and Others reported in (1994) 6 SCC 241. That judgment also does not lay down that, as a matter of course, without the candidate producing any reliable document, the inquiry is mandatory. 2. We do not find any substance in the Petition. Petition is rejected. (D.K. DESHMUKH, J.) (V.M. KANADE, J.) 3