Road vs The Joint Commissioner And Vice on 11 March, 2013
Three Hon'ble Judges have looked into its earlier two orders. There the
caste certificate issued was invalidated on the ground that they could not
substantiate there case as belonging to Thakur - Scheduled Tribe and they
also could not establish any affinity. That cancellation was upheld by High
Court and then Special Leave Petition came to be filed before the Hon'ble
Apex Court. In para 5, the Hon'ble Apex Court accepts the finding of Caste
Scrutiny Committee as also findings of High Court but then holds that it
cannot ignore various circumstances which intervened between issuance of
caste certificate and cancellation thereof. In the light of those
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developments, the order of the Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of Swati vs.
State of Maharashtra, in Civil Application No. 7411 of 2010 decided on
06.09.2010 was pressed into service before this larger Bench. There
though a Special Leave Petition filed by Swati was dismissed, benefits
already enjoyed and degree of B.D.S. obtained by Swati came to be
protected. A direction was issued that she would not be entitled to any
further benefits under the caste certificate. The Hon'ble larger Bench noted
that facts in the case of Dattu before it were similar. It, therefore,
proceeded to dismiss all three Special Leave Petitions but then preserved
benefits, advantages till then derived by the holders of Caste certificate. It
is also clarified by the Hon'ble larger Bench that the petitioner would not
be entitled to take any further advantage in future either for studies or
employment. The petitioner, however, was directed to make good the
amount of concession enjoyed by way of reduction of fees. This judgment,
therefore, again shows that consequences flowing from Section 10 of Act
No. 23 of 2001 have not been found just and not permitted by the Hon'ble
Apex Court in the facts and circumstances of the matter before it though it
dismissed the SLP as filed. Obviously, again the exercise is of its powers
under Article 142 of the Constitution of India. The Full Bench of this Court
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Judgment.