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The Nagpur seat of the Bombay High Court connected Monday quashed and acceptable speech the determination of the territory caste certificate scrutiny committee, which invalidated the caste certificate of Congress person Rashmi Barve, stating that the sheet passed the bid truthful that she could not contention the Lok Sabha elections.
The tribunal besides directed the Caste Scrutiny Committee (CSC) to wage a outgo of Rs. 1 lakh to Barve wrong a week and expressed displeasure implicit its conduct. “We consciousness it our bounden work to powerfully deprecate the behaviour of the CSC, who, alternatively of acting independently, dispassionately and wrong the 4 corners of the Caste Certificate Act, 2000 and the Rules framed thereunder, has conducted the enquiry, successful a manner, which nary Court of the onshore tin accept, arsenic it has simply acted arsenic a lackey of the administration,” a part seat of Justices Avinash G Gharote and Mukilika S Jawalkar held. The bid was made disposable connected Tuesday.
The petitioner, done advocator S R Narnaware, claimed that the ailment earlier the committee filed by 1 Sunil Uttamrao Salve was ‘politically motivated’ and the sheet had erred successful passing its verdict. Her Nagpur Zilla parishad rank was besides cancelled owed to impugned decision.
In a powerfully worded judgment, the seat opined that the petitioner made retired a lawsuit that she belongs to the Scheduled Caste ‘Chambhar’ community. “The CSC appears to person gone connected a witch hunt, being influenced by the missive of the Under-Secretary to the State and the complaints received by it, and alternatively of applying an autarkic mind, has danced to the tune of responsive Salve, who, erstwhile having failed successful an earlier effort successful this regard, enlisted the assistance of the Under-Secretary to the State, to power the CSC into discarding its earlier basal taken connected his application, successful conjunction with responsive officials…”
The seat noted that principles of earthy justness to springiness tenable accidental to the petitioner to beryllium heard were ‘thrown to the winds’ to “reject the caste assertion of the petitioner, to guarantee that she would not beryllium a campaigner successful the parliamentary elections.”
The seat held the “impugned decision, which is simply a effect of specified shenanigans cannot beryllium permitted to stand,” particularly erstwhile the worldly recovered done autarkic probe of Vigilance Cell indicated that caste assertion of petitioner was genuine.
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