wp8780.09 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY, BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 8780 OF 2009 Shri Vijaykumar Kautikrao Suryawanshi .. PETITIONER VERSUS The State of Maharashtra & others .. RESPONDENTS Mr. S.C. Yalmanwar, advocate holding for Mr. A.S. Golegaonkar, advocate for the petitioner. Mr. D.R. Kale, AGP for respondent no. 1. Mr. R.P. Phatke, advocate for respondent no. 2. ===== CORAM : D.B. BHOSALE & R.M. BORDE, JJ. DATE : 22 nd FEBRUARY, 2011 PER COURT : 1 Heard learned counsel for the parties. 2 Learned counsel for the petitioner, on instructions, does not press prayer clauses ‘C’ and ‘D’ in the writ petition and seeks direction to respondent no. 2–Committee to decide the caste claim of the petitioner, within time frame, which is pending before the Committee since last more than 3 years. wp8780.09 2 3 Having considered the prayers in the writ petition, we are satisfied that this petition can be conveniently disposed of by the following order : . Respondent no. 2 – The Scheduled Tribe Certificate Scrutiny Committee shall decide the caste claim of the petitioner as expeditiously as possible and preferably within a period of six months from the date of receipt of this order. . Petitioner is directed to communicate this order to respondent no. 2, within a period of two weeks from today. 3 Petition is disposed of accordingly. ( R. M. BORDE ) ( D.B. BHOSALE ) JUDGE JUDGE dyb