Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 140 · Decided 7 March 2013
Pournima Suryakant Pawar v. State of Maharahtra and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 140 · [2013] 2 S.C.R. 262
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) No. 3910/2008
- Decided
- 7 March 2013
- Bench
- S.S. NIJJAR, M.Y. EQBAL (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Scheduled Caste I Scheduled Tribe - Caste scrutiny - Claim of petitioners that they belonged to Scheduled Tribe - C Rejected by Scheduled Tribe Certificate Scrutiny Committee - Order upheld by High Court - On appeal, held: Documentary evidence showed that family members of belong to the 'Thakar Scheduled Tribe' as claimed by them - Petitioners deliberately withheld their caste at the time D 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
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