Supreme Court of India

Registrar General, Calcutta High Court v. Shrinivas Prasad Shah and Others,

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Reported as [2013] 3 S.C.R. 211
Bench K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra JJ.
Decided 3 May 2013

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that in view of the specific legislation passed by the West Bengal State Legislature Assembly i.e.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

WEST BENGAL SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES (IDENTIFICATION) ACT, 1994: s.5 - Issuance of certificate - Competent authority - West Bengal Judicial Service Examination, 2007-· Respondent claiming to be a member of Scheduled Tribe on · the basis of certificate issued by Director, Backward Class Welfare, West Bengal - Treated as a general category candidate - Held: The notification specifically stipulates that a candidate belonging to SC/ST/BC must have a certificate in support of his/her claim from a competent authority as specified under the Act - There is no effor in the decision taken

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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