1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD. WRIT PETITION NO.2654 OF 2010. Sou. Leelavati W/o Sitaram Kendale ... Petitioner. Versus The State of Maharashtra and others ... Respondents. ... Mr.V.D.Salunke, advocate for the petitioner. Mr.K.G.Patil, Asstt. Govt.Pleader for the State. Mr.S.T.Shelke, advocate for the Respondent No.2. ... CORAM : P.V.HARDAS AND : S.V.GANGAPURWALA,JJ. Date : 25.03.2010. PER COURT 1. Unfortunate though the situation may seem to be no relief which the petitioner has prayed for in this petition can be granted to the petitioner. The proposal of submitting the 2 Caste Certificate of the petitioner came to be referred by the Collector to the Respondent Scrutiny Committee by communication of the Collector,Jalna dated 30.12.2006. Though two years had elapsed and no steps had been taken by the Respondent Committee for proceeding with the process of verification of the Caste Certificate of the petitioner, the petitioner ran from pillar to post in order to ensure that the verification process was concluded before the ensuing elections of the Panchayat Samiti Mantha, Dist.Jalna. The Collector in response to the entities of the petitioner, addressed a communication to the Committee requesting the Committee to expeditiously decide the Caste claim of the petitioner. The Committee misconstrued the reminder of the Collector to mean that the proposal was being submitted by the Collector as late as 23.3.2010. The Committee, therefore, expressed its helplessness in deciding the caste claim before 26.3.2010 which is the last date for submission of the nomination paper. 2. The petitioner, therefore, has invoked 3 the extraordinary jurisdiction of this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India with a request made by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner may be permitted to submit her nomination form and the acceptance of the nomination form may be made subject to result of the petition and the Committee may be directed to decide the Caste claim of the petitioner before 11.4.2010 which is the scheduled date of polling. 3. The provision of law requires a candidate to submit the validity certificate from the competent Scrutiny Committee at the time of submission of the nomination papers. Unfortunately, the Caste claim of the petitioner has not been decided by the Committee early so as to enable the petitioner to submit her nomination form. However, on that score, the provision of law can not be relaxed. We have asked the learned Asstt. Govt. Pleader as the Committee would be in a position to decide the Caste claim of the petitioner within one day. The Asstt. Govt. Pleader has expressed that it would not be 4 possible to decide the Caste claim of the petitioner. 4. We, therefore, find no grounds for interference in the present petition and dismiss the petition as such. However, we issue directions to the Scrutiny Committee to expeditiously decide the Caste claim of the petitioner preferably within six (6) months from today. 5. The petition is accordingly dismissed with aforesaid directions with no order as to costs. (S.V.GANGAPURWALA,J.) (P.V.HARDAS,J.) asp/office/wp265410