view of enquiry report,
documents collected by enquiry office and affinity test these
documents are rejected.
G. The document quoted ... error by ignoring
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these documents and by solely applying the affinity test. Drawing
support from the decision of this Court in Sayanna Vs. State
Rules specifically provide for the Vigilance Cell to
conduct affinity test. There is some controversy about whether the
vigilance cell constituted under the ST Rules ... affinity test
cannot be applied as a litmus test. We may again note here that
question of conduct of the affinity test arises only
basis of scrutiny, accepted the relevance and importance of
the affinity test. By the affinity test, the Scrutiny Committees would
be entitled to verify ... affinity of the applicant is not alien to the scheme of the Act and
the Rules. On the contrary, application of the affinity test
issues of "the Constitutional area restriction removal",
"affinity test", "relations certificates" and its effect on assessing the
evidence/documents ... claim cannot be rejected solely on the ground that the affinity test
was not established. Similar reliefs have been granted in Pawan
Ramkrishna Deore
that the sole respondent is a member of Mogia Tribe. The
affinity test conducted in the matter establishes that the sole
respondent Dule Singh Solanki ... supposed to be conducted by the Vigilance Officer,
would include the affinity test of the applicant to a particular
tribe to which he claims
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the Petitioner established ethnic linkage and
affinity test to prove that he belongs to Thakur
Tribe, the certificate cannot ... Committee observe that it would be
imperative to rely upon the affinity test to verify whether the
claimant is really belonging to Thakur, Scheduled Tribe
Maharashtra and ors. 3, the enquiry with
regard to the affinity test is the relevant consideration while
considering the claim of the Petitioner. The learned ... come to the conclusion that the failure to pass the
affinity test would entitle the committee to reject the claim of
the candidate
following grounds:-
i. The appellant failed to satisfy the Affinity Test
conducted during the vigilance inquiry.
ii. The appellant failed to prove that she originally ... affinity test cannot be applied as a litmus test. We
may again note here that question of conduct of the
affinity test arises only
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prescribing the guidelines by way of affinity test to judge the claims
of the Gowari community and the direction ... clearly show
them as Gowari and merely on the basis of affinity test, they have
been granted validity as 'Gond Gowari Scheduled Tribe
Koli Mahadeo', Scheduled Tribe. The Committee has
applied affinity test and considered the documents which were issued
subsequent ... Halba', Scheduled Tribe. The Committee,
after applying the affinity test and considering the documents placed
on record, holds that the caste certificate dated
