Supreme Court of India

Pournima Suryakant Pawar v. State of Maharahtra and Others

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Reported as [2013] 2 S.C.R. 262
Bench Surinder Singh Nijjar and M.Y. Eqbal JJ.
Decided 7 March 2013

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, we find no merit in both the Special Leave Petitions.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Scheduled Caste I Scheduled Tribe - Caste scrutiny - Claim of petitioners that they belonged to Scheduled Tribe - Rejected by Scheduled Tribe Certificate Scrutiny Committee - Order upheld by High Court - On appeal, held: Documentary evidence showed that family members of the petitioners did not belong to the 'Thakar Scheduled Tribe' as claimed by them - Petitioners deliberately withheld their caste at the time of making application before the Caste Scrutiny Committee - The Scrutiny Committee also noticed that the petitioners failed in the affinity test as the information supplied by them was

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