Supreme Court · 1997 INSC 286 · Decided 17 March 1997
Ganesh S/O Gulabrao Suroshe v. State of Maharashtra and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1997 INSC 286 · [1997] 2 S.C.R. 1180
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2537/1997
- Decided
- 17 March 1997
- Bench
- K. RAMASWAMY, G.T. NANAVATI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 342, 226
Headnote
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act, 1976 : Social status certificat~laimants by caste a 'Thakur~ afoiward caste C in State of Maharaslzt•a, claiming himself as Schedule Tribe-Scrutiny C-0m­ mittee rejecting the claim holding that claimant was neither a 'Ma 171akur' nof7l 'Ka 342 of the Constitution, subject to tlle Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act 1976 is conclusive a11d final-Court cannot examine, to find out the caste of the party, the basis of D the certificate issued-The limited area the Court can survey is whether the caste mentioned in the
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