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Let the report be placed before this Court on 2.6.1997."

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(h) On the basis of this interim order, an enquiry was conducted by the Civil Rights Enforcement Cell ("the CRE Cell", for short) and a report was also submitted to this Court in the said writ petition. The report of the CRE Cell was to the effect that the petitioner did belong to the "Beda Jangam" caste.

6. The petitioner approached this Court in W.P. No.3787 of 1997 and in this writ petition, an interim order was passed, directing the CRE Cell to inquire into the caste of the petitioner and submit a report. Accordingly, the CRE

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NC: 2023:KHC:39750 Cell submitted its report holding that the petitioner belonged to the "Beda Jangam" caste which, admittedly, is a Scheduled Caste.

7. It may also be pertinent to state here that this report of the CRE Cell was not rejected by this Court and this Court, ultimately, allowed the writ petition on the ground that the Tahsildar and the Deputy Commissioner had no jurisdiction to inquire into the caste of the petitioner and it was only the CVC who could take a decision in that regard.

8. Thus, as of 1999, there was a CRE Cell report which stated that the petitioner did belong to the "Beda Jangam"

caste and the same was also placed on record in W.P. No.3787 of 1997, but the matter did not attain finality despite the order passed by this Court.

9. Notwithstanding this order, the KSFC approached the CVC and requested it to verify the authenticity of the petitioner's caste certificate. However, the CVC proceeded to pass a categorical order stating that it had no

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12. In my view, though the order dated 21.01.2008 was not challenged by the KSFC or by anyone else, the matter

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NC: 2023:KHC:39750 relating to the caste certificate of the petitioner ought to have come to an end.

13. It may be pertinent to state here that there were neither any judicial pronouncements nor statutory provisions/Government Orders which nullified all the orders that had been passed by the DCVC, holding that it had no jurisdiction to examine the veracity of the Caste Certificates issued prior to 1993. Consequently, the KSFC could not have approached the CVC for the second time and the CVC could not have also embarked upon an enquiry in this regard, especially when the CRE cell had enquired into the matter at the instance of this Court and had opined that the petitioner did belong to the Beda Jangam caste.