Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 212 · Decided 21 February 2022
Sunil Kumar Rai & ORS. v. The State of Bihar & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 212 · [2022] 3 S.C.R. 1111
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 1052/2021
- Decided
- 21 February 2022
- Bench
- K.M. JOSEPH, HRISHIKESH ROY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 438; Constitution Article 32, 14
Headnote
Social status certificate: Notification dated 23.08.2016 issued by Government of Bihar - In terms of said Notification, approval given to issue Scheduled Tribe certificate to Lohara (Lohar) community - Writ petition filed under Art.32 praying quashment of said Notification direction to the Government to pay compensation for illegal notification which led to FIR under the provisions of SC and ST Act, 1989 against the petitioners - Held: It has been held in catena of decisions that Lohars are not members of the Scheduled Tribe and they are members of the OBCs
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