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1. The caste claim of the petitioner as belonging to Pardesi (OBC) is invalidated by the Divisional Caste Certificate Scrutiny Committee, Nasik No.2, Dhule under its judgment and order dated 11.5.2016. The said judgment is assailed in the present Writ Petition.

2. Mr.R.S.Deshmukh, learned counsel for the petitioner strenuously contends that the petitioner had filed voluminous documents on record to substantiate her caste claim. The documents were also of pre-independence period having great probative value. However, the Committee committed grave error in discarding the said documents. The learned counsel submits that the petitioner in support of her caste claim as belonging to Pardesi (OBC) had submitted extract of appendix 14 of Births and Deaths Register of pre-independence period of the great grand-father of the petitioner, so also the death certificate of the great grand-father of the petitioner Mithusing Jaising Pardesi. The name itself shows the caste of the petitioner's great grand father. Even the extract of mutation entry register of village Gondkhel, Taluka Jamner, District Jalgaon corroborates the case of the petitioner and the sawp6295me is in conformity with the genealogy submitted by the petitioner. The said document also proves the caste of the petitioner and her fore-father as Pardeshi. The learned counsel further submits that during the course of the proceedings the Respondent No.5 Committee addressed a letter to the expert of Modi script i.e. Rajwade Research Centre, Dhule, and sought its expert opinion about the interpretation of the word "Pudeshi". The expert i.e. Rajwade Research Centre communicated to the Respondent No.5 and confirmed that the word "Pudeshi" is to be read as Pardesi. According to the learned counsel, the said fact would unequivocally establish that in pre-independence document of the great grand father of the petitioner, the caste is consistently recorded as Pardesi.