ORDER :

1. This Writ Petition is filed to declare the action of the respondents 2 and 3 in not digitalizing the permanent community certificates of the petitioners herein, even though the said certificates are valid as on today, as arbitrary and illegal.

2. The present Writ Petition is filed by 20 petitioners who are said to be permanent residents of Rampachodavaram. Their case is that they belong to Valmiki community which is recognized as a Scheduled Tribe community under the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950; the petitioners’ ancestor by name Dabba Yegulaiah lived in Tantikonda village, Rajavommangi Mandal, East Godavari district and the petitioners are the legal heirs of the said person who is their first ancestor; the first petitioner’s great grandfather’s brother’s name is Dabba Swamy and his name and his wife’s names were registered in the birth register of 1942 in which their caste was mentioned as “Valmikulu”; petitioners submitted revenue records which are prior to 1950 to the third respondent to prove their caste; first petitioner and other petitioners got selected for various Government jobs under ST quota and in the year 2002 the then Mandal Revenue Officer iss