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(iii) Caste correction / enabling direction: Respondent No.4 (Headmaster) shall enter the caste of Petitioner No.2 (mother of Petitioner No.1) in the school records of Petitioner No.1 (minor daughter of Petitioner No.2) as "Scheduled Caste - Mahar" in place of the caste of Petitioner No.1's father "Maratha". Petitioner No.2 is permitted to apply for issuance of a caste certificate for Petitioner No.1 on the basis of her own caste status as "Scheduled Caste - Mahar" with supported of the documents of her and her maternal family. The competent authority shall consider such application for caste claim of Petitioner No.1 expeditiously by applying the fact-sensitive approach mandated by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Rameshbhai Dabhai Naika (supra) and the approach of this Court in Noopur Ambre (supra) and Sonal Vahanwala (supra), without insisting inflexibly upon paternal records where the facts demonstrate exclusive maternal upbringing and severance of paternal ties.

(iv) After receiving the caste certificate from the competent authority, Petitioner No.2 shall produce such caste certificate of Petitioner No.1 to the office of Respondents No.3 and 4, who will then take the copy of the said certificate on the school record and issue all consequential corrected documents with the corrected 15528-28-WP.odt {21} name, surname, and caste of Petitioner No.1 to Petitioner No.2, if required.