THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE V. ESWARAIAH WRIT PETITION No.15686 OF 2000 DATED: 17-07-2008 BETWEEN G. Naveen Kumar, S/o. Bhakathavatsalam, R/o. Punganuru, Chittoor District. …PETITIONER AND Commissioner of Tribal Welfare, Andhra Pradesh, Telugu Samkshema Bhavan, Masab Tank, Hyderabad and two others. …RESPONDENTS ORDER: Petitioner submits that he belongs to Yerukala community declared and notified as Schedule Tribe and his father and grandfather also have been treated as persons belonging to the Yerukala community notified as Schedule Tribe. While so, the petitioner appeared for EAMCET-2000 with Hall Ticket No.2115172 and secured rank No.18873. He submits that he is entitled to get admission as ST candidate according to the merit obtained by him and in the counseling held on 05.08.2000 he was allotted a seat in B.Tech (ECE) Course in S.V. Engineering College, Tirupati. While so, he was denied admission expressing a doubt with regard to his social status vide proceedings of the Commissioner of Tribal Welfare in R.C.No.816/2000/TRI/VC-2 dated 05.08.2000. 2. The aforesaid memo has been questioned in this writ petition. This Court while admitting the writ petition directed the respondents to admit the petitioner into the I year B.Tech (ECE) Course in the allotted seat in S.V. University College of Engineering treating him as a ST candidate in the local area of S.V. University. Counter has not been filed. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the controversy involved in the writ petition is squarely covered by a Division Bench judgment of this Court in W.P.No.25270 of 1997 dated 27.10.2003. 4. Following the aforesaid judgment, it is kept open to the competent authority, if it so desires, to make an enquiry into the social status of the petitioner in accordance with provisions of the Andhra Pradesh (Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes) Regulation of Issue of Community Certificates Act, 1993, in which event the petitioner shall be entitled for a notice and hearing and further opportunity in terms of the provisions of the Act. The admission of the petitioner into the first year Engineering Course pursuant to the interim directions issued by this Court and the observations, if any, made by the first respondent shall not come in the way of the competent authority to initiate appropriate action against the petitioner. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. ______________ V. ESWARAIAH, J July 17, 2008 DSK