JUDGMENT: - This appeal by special leave calls in question the judgment of the Gauhati High Court dated 18th March, 1985, dismissing the writ petition of the appellant. The appellant, a resident of Tripura State maintained before the High Court that he belongs to Laskar Community which has been treated within the State as a Scheduled Tribe and all the benefits available to members of the Scheduled Tribes were enjoyed by the Community to which the appellant belongs. Without any justification the State Government in 1976 decided to treat the Laskar Community as not belonging to the Scheduled Tribes and issued instructions to implement the decision of the Government. Aggrieved by such action, the appellant had approached the High Court by way of a writ petition for appropriate directions to continue to treat the appellant and members of his Community as belonging to the Scheduled Tribes and to extend the benefits available to the members of the Scheduled Tribes to the appellant and the members of the community.

2. The record before us shows that the people of the Laskar Community have been treated as members of the Scheduled Tribes and there have been some letters from the Government o