P.Govindarasu vs The Revenue Divisional Officer on 22 April, 2016
7. We have carefully gone through the impugned order passed by the respondent as well as the counter affidavits filed in the writ petitions. Even though the applicants in all the four writ petitions produced the community certificates issued in favour of their parent and sisters, the respondents did not consider the certificates, but, rejected the applications on the only ground that they all belong to Kurumbar (MBC) community and do not belong to Kurumans (ST). This Court in a number of cases repeatedly held that once the parents of the applicants were issued with community certificates, without any further verification, the children are also entitled to get the said community certificates. The authorities cannot doubt the certificate issued in favour of the parents by another competent authority unless it is set aside or modified by the higher authority viz., the State Level Scrutiny Committee. A Division Bench of this court in W.P.No.19251 of 2015 in which one of us (SATISH K.AGNIHOTRI, J.) is a member, (D.Ruthiran v. The Revenue Divisional Officer, Dharmapuri) has held as under:-