...caste-certificate is ex-parte and without opportunity of hearing and in any view of the matter the Returning Officer cannot be permitted to exercise twin jurisdiction while considering a nomination to reject the...-certificate of the petitioner on a complaint received in this regard, has also proceeded to reject the nomination of the petitioner.2. According to the petitioner, the order of cancellation of...caste-certificate and that also without opportunity of hearing to the petitioner.3. It is stated that the election is scheduled to be held on 2nd of May, 2016...

...Rule 3 and 3-B declare that the Tahsildar is competent to issue a caste certificate or can reject the application for issuance of caste certificate. But however, as submitted by the counsel for...ORDERThe caste certificate issued in favour of respondent No. 4 in W.P No. 82995/2011 has been cancelled. Therefore, prayer in writ petition No. 82995/2011 is complied.... Accordingly, writ petition is disposed of.2. Writ petition No. 80162/2012 is filed against the cancellation of the caste certificate.3. It is contended that without notice...

...concerned parties, either to validate the caste certificate or reject the caste certificate issued in favor of any person. 15. A reading of the aforesaid provisions clearly i...the 1st respondent, by which the caste certificate issued to the father of the petitioners, identifying him as belonging to the "Maratha" community, classified as a Scheduled Tribe, was...canceled. Consequently, the petitioners were debarred from claiming benefits under the said community. 2. The petitioners' father was issued a caste certificate stating that he...

...issue on 17.9.2012 had confirmed his caste as ‘Dhanuk’ but for the reasons best known to him he has modified his opinion to reject the caste certificate while issuing his report to the Additional...contested the election on the basis of a false caste certificate inasmuch as the caste certificate issued in his favour showing him as ‘Dhanuk caste’ which falls within the extremely backward category is n...Tribunal that the matter proceeded before the Election Commission and on the basis of the report of the Circle Officer dated 20.4.2013 cancelling his caste-certificate that the election of the petitioner...

...Classes and Special Backward Category (Regulation of Issuance and Verification of) Caste Certificate Act, 2000. We, therefore, reject the said contention.44. The...Board can maintain an independent special leave petition questioning the judgment of a High Court setting aside an order of the Scheduled Tribe Caste Certificate Scrutiny Committee (the Caste Scrutiny...Certificate Scrutiny Committee. The Committee held:“Thereafter, the Caste Scrutiny Committee decided to conduct school enquiry of the case and approached the primary...

...primary school certificate was taken serious note of to reject the appellant's claim.7. Before the High Court also, it is claimed, reliance was placed on the caste certificate..., the Scheduled Tribe/Caste Certificate Scrutiny Committee (for short ‘Committee’) for the issue of a caste certificate to the effect that she belongs to ‘Halba’ Scheduled Tribe to enable her to apply...consisting of certificates issued by the Executive Magistrate and school certificate issued to her and caste certificate issued to her father.5. The second respondent Committee...

...about the genuineness of the claim he may reject the claim of caste certificate of the applicant by stating reasons in his order. The Competent Authority shall give a copy of the order, free of cost..., Yavatmal has rejected the application for grant of caste certificate to the Petitioner and no reasons therefor are assigned. 3. What is shown to us is a screen shot of a portal maintained by...the Maha Online Limited, wherein a remark is placed that the Petitioner should produce Court order. Based on this remark, the petition is filed stating that the application for caste certificate is...

... the applicant, pass an order issuing a caste certificate or, as the case may be, an income and caste certificate in such form as may be prescribed, or reject the application.... By reading Section 4-A, which clarifies the position that any person can make an application for issuance of caste certificate and it is the duty of the Tahsildar to examine and enquire to issue or reject the...the correctness of the information, documents and evidence furnished by the applicant, he shall issue caste certificate or he shall reject the application filed by the applicant...

...caste certificate. Section 6 (1) of U.P. Janhit Guarantee Act, 2011 provides for an appeal within 30 days from the date of rejection of application for issuing caste certificate. In...our opinion the rejection of the application for caste certificate, under the scheme of thing provided for, at the first instance has to be challenged in Appeal. In...the notification dated 15.1.2011, the first designated officer i.e. Tehsildar is to consider the case of issuance of the caste certificate. The power of issuance of the certificate of an officer...

...of Uttarakhand since 1950, therefore, the petitioner is not entitled for Scheduled Caste certificate and the application has been returned to the petitioner without passing any order.It is within the domain of the Teh..., the petitioner has sought a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the respondent no. 2 to issue scheduled caste certificate to the petitioner.In paragraph no. 8 of the writ petition...application if the petitioner is not entitled to get caste certificate or he may issue caste certificate to the petitioner in accordance...

...Caste candidate. By holding so, the committee proceeded to reject the caste claim and confiscated the certificate issued in favour of the petitioner by the Executive Magistrate. We have perused the...Shri P.B Patil, learned counsel for respondent No. 2.2. The petitioner claims that he belongs to ‘Mala Jangam” scheduled caste. In support of his caste claim, the petitioner placed reliance...on document filed at Annexure ‘P’ which is a copy of register of Village Panchayat Committee, Gondi of the year 1939/40. Perusal of the copy of the said register reveals that the caste of the...

...issuance of Caste Certificate entitles the petitioner for a writ of mandamus, directing the respondent to consider his application. Therefore, the following order: The respondent is directed to con...THE R1 FOR ISSUANCE OF THE CASTE CERTIFICATE FORTH WITH, PRODUCED AT ANNEXURE- A AND PASS ANY OTHER ORDERS AS THIS COURT MAY DEEM...this Court, praying for a writ of mandamus to consider the request/representation dated 13.01.2022 (Annexure-A) of the petitioners made to the first respondent for issuance of Caste Certificate forthwith...

...apply, leaving entry in respect of his caste blank. Respondent no. 4 is directed to verify petitioner's claim of belonging to Kharwar community and either issue fresh caste certificate on cancelling the earlier one or ...community, a scheduled caste. He had applied for caste certificate. It was issued erroneously putting his client in category 'other backward class' (OBC) (Kahar). He seeks direction upon respondent no. 4 to...consider his client's application dated 20th August, 2025 and issue correct caste certificate with consequential direction of quashing the erroneous one. On query he submits, U.P. Police Recruitment...

...decided on 20-7-2001 and, therefore, the same is liable to be quashed and set aside. It is not for the Scrutiny Committee to reject the caste or tribe claim merely by observing that the caste...certificate has been obtained fraudulently. The Scrutiny Committee has primarily to decide the caste claim based on whatever material is placed before it.4. In the circumstances...

....4. In view of the above, there is no reason for the respondents to reject the application of the petitioner for grant of a caste certificate. The impugned order dated 09.03.2012 passed by respondent...Hon'ble Sudhanshu Dhulia, J. (Oral)1. The petitioner belongs to Other Backward Class community known as “Badai”. He has not been given caste certificate by the authorities..., as according to them the petitioner has not been able to show any proof that he is the original resident of Uttarakhand. Consequently, the application for grant of a caste certificate of the...

...issue of a Caste Certificate. Provisions of Section 4(1) of the Caste Certificate Act 2000 show that Competent Authority after satisfying itself about the genuineness of the claim and by...caste claim of the petitioner and issued Validity Certificate on 19.5.2010. 4. The learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner contested the election of...petition in this Court bearing No. 1855 of 2011, challenging the Validity Certificate issued to the petitioner by the Caste Scrutiny Committee. Counsel for the petitioner has submitted...

...pretext of the Government Order dated 22-6-2006.The application form of the petitioner for issuance of caste certificate cannot be refused to accept. It is within the domain of Tehsildar to reject the...means of this petition, the petitioner has sought a writ in the nature of mandamus commanding the respondents to issue the caste certificate in favour of petitioner belonging to Jatav Community...notified as Scheduled Caste in the State of Uttarakhand.The petitioner, in para No. 7 of the petition, has alleged that in order to obtain the caste certificate the petitioner approached the...

...reject and/or invalidate the caste certificate of “Thakur Tribes”. The decision and/or insistence to place documents, as well as, the evidence only of the restricted area, in our view, cannot be the...”, “affinity test”, “relations certificates” and its effect on assessing the evidence/documents and the merits of the matter while granting/rejecting/validating the caste certificate.3. Each...Backward Classes and Special Backward Category (Regulation of Issuance and Verification of) Caste Certificate Act, 2000 (Maharashtra Act No. XXIII of 2001) (for short, the Act...

...contention as to whether the Committee could reject the caste certificate of Kumari Kalpana Ranchod Uplap. That 6 was...father, this is shown as Mannervarlu. The Committee could not have ignored this documentary evidence. The Committee it is submitted wrongly relied on the School Leaving Certificate where the the caste...also submitted that the caste certificate of blood relation ought not to have been discarded. 2. On the other hand, on behalf of the Respondents their learned Counsel...

...subsequent caste claim to reject it. There is, however, no doubt as observed by us earlier that if a committee is of the view that the earlier certificate is obtained by fraud it would not be bound to...consent of learned counsel for parties.3. The petitioner has challenged the order dated 22-1-2010 passed by the Caste Scrutiny Committee invalidating the caste certificate to the effect that...she belongs to Kanjar Bhat-Nomadic Tribe. The main grievance of the petitioner is that the caste certificate to the effect that she belongs to Kanjar Bhat-Nomadic Tribe ought not to have been...