ORDER :

The petitioner is knocking at the doors of this Court in the subject petition being aggrieved by the report of the District Caste Verification Committee (for short ‘DCVC’) dated 27-10-2021 and has sought consequential direction to confirm the caste certificate issued to him by the Competent Authority on 03-04-2012 as legal and valid.

2. Facts that lead the petitioner to this Court in the subject petition, as borne out from the pleadings, are as follows:

The petitioner claims to be a resident of Maraheru Kothur Village and claims to be belonging to ‘Budaga Jangama’ caste. It is the further averment that custom and religious practices that the petitioner follows and professes are that of Budaga Jangama caste. The petitioner claims that his parents and his fore-fathers also belonged to Budaga Jangama caste. Owing to their illiteracy and ignorance the school authorities had indicated the caste of the petitioner as belonging to ‘Byragi’, looking at the attire of his parents. In the year 2008 the petitioner applies for grant of a caste certificate in his favour depicting him to be belonging to Budaga Jangama caste before the jurisdictional Tahsildar. The Tahsildar rejects the applic