FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 6346 OF 2011 "Shri Kiran s/o. Namdeo Wagh and others. Vs. The State of Maharashtra and others." Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's Orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. 1 Mr. Abhijit P. Avhad, Advocate for petitioner. Mr. S.V. Kurundkar, Govt. Pleader for respondent No.1. Mr. K.D. Bade Patil, Advocate for respondent No.2. CORAM :- B.R. GAVAI & M.T. JOSHI, JJ. DATE :- 19th SEPTEMBER, 2011. PER COURT :- 1] Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. Heard by consent. 2] By way of present petition the petitioner has approached this court since his claim of belonging to scheduled tribe has not yet been decided by respondent No.2 and he is apprehending disqualification as member of the Gram Panchayat, on the ground of non -submission of validity certificate. 3] The petitioner cannot be penalized on account of delay by the respondent No.2 in not deciding the claim of the petitioner. In that view of the matter, Rule is made absolute in the following terms :- FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 6346 OF 2011 "Shri Kiran s/o. Namdeo Wagh and others. Vs. The State of Maharashtra and others." Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's Orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. 2 [i] Respondent No.2 Committee is directed to decide the claim of the petitioner, as expeditiously as possible and in any case, within six months from today. [ii] Till the decision of the committee, and in the event, the order of respondent No.2 committee goes adverse to the interest of the petitioner, for a further period of 4 weeks from the date of receipt of communication thereof, no adverse action will be taken against the petitioner. [M.T. JOSHI,J.] [B.R. GAVAI, J.] grt/-