referred to the Schedule
Tribe Certificate Scrutiny Committee. The Committee held:
"Thereafter the Scrutiny Committee decided to
conduct school enquiry of the case ... till the point
of time of issue of caste validity certificate by
the Caste Certificate Scrutiny Committee i.e.
respondent
false Caste Certificate as
belonging to such Caste, Tribe or Class on such false Caste
Certificate being cancelled by the Scrutiny Committee, and any
benefits ... caste certificate does not in itself conclude the
level of scrutiny. The next stage of scrutiny is contemplated before the Scrutiny
Committee which is conferred
passed by the Committee for Scrutiny and
Verification of Tribe Claims, Amravati, (for short "the Caste Scrutiny
Committee"), respondent No.1 in this ... statutory provisions for verification and scrutiny of caste
claims by the Competent Authority and subsequently by the Caste
Scrutiny Committee. In exercise of its rule
Scrutiny Committee constituted under the 2000 Act. Power is
vested in the Scrutiny Committee constituted under Section 6 to
verify the correctness of the caste ... legal principle that in every case of verification of caste claim, the
Caste Scrutiny Committee is under a mandate to refer the case
statutory provisions for the verification and scrutiny of caste claims
by competent authorities and subsequently by Caste Scrutiny
Committees. The Act creates offences; provides ... Scrutiny Committee. Under sub-section (1) of
Section 6 the State Government has to constitute one or more
Scrutiny Committees for the verification of caste
extra-
ordinary leave.
7. It appears that in the meanwhile the Caste Scrutiny
Committee, constituted in terms of the decision of this
Court in Kumari ... Mangela Koli", the caste the
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respondents belong to as per the opinion of the Caste
Scrutiny Committee, had been treated as "special
that the Caste Certificate of Scheduled Caste,
issued in favour of the petitioner, was upheld by the High
Power Caste Scrutiny Committee, therefore, the Caste ... that the Caste Certificate of Scheduled Caste, issued in
favour of the petitioner, was upheld by the High Power
Caste Scrutiny Committee, therefore, the Caste
statutory provisions for
verification and scrutiny of caste claims by the
Competent Authority and subsequently by the Caste
Scrutiny Committee. In exercise of its rule ... require any further verification by the Scrutiny
Committee."
(Emphasis added)
"45. The Scrutiny Committee in ordinary circumstances
examined the matter and after investigation
valid certificate from the Scrutiny Committee, and it is only after the Scrutiny Committee issuing a valid certificate that the caste certificate issued in favour ... being set aside by the Scrutiny Committee. The job of the Scrutiny Committee is of either issuing the final caste certificate or refusing
being set aside by the Scrutiny Committee. The job of the Scrutiny Committee is of either issuing the final caste certificate or refusing ... Scrutiny Committee implies that in the opinion of the Scrutiny Committee, such certificate has been obtained fraudulently because the inquiry by the Scrutiny Committee centres
