JUDGMENT - S.P. BHARUCHA, J.:---We have before us several writ petitions and appeals in which the principal question is : is Vanjari (an Other Backward Class) a synonym of Banjara (notified as a Vimukta Jati). As a matter of convenience, this appeal, though it is an appeal against the grant of interim relief in a writ petition, is, by consent of all concerned, heard and treated as determinative. We have heard Mr. Gursahani, who appears for the petitioners in all the matters; Mr. Saraf and Mr. Chogle, who appear for the State Government; and Ms. Madhyan, who appears in some matters for the Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay. We have permitted Mr. S.C. Dharmadhikari, to intervene on behalf of the All India Banjara Sewa Sangh.

2. The petitioner was admitted in 1948-49 to the A.E.S. High School at Palghar in District Thane in the State of Maharashtra. In the School's record his caste was shown as Hindu Vanjari. In 1959 the petitioner came to Bombay for the purposes of employment. In February 1980 the petitioner applied to the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Bandra, for the grant of a caste certificate. On 20th February, 1980 the said Magistrate issued to him a caste cert

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