JUDGMENT :

Mangesh S. Patil, J.

1. Rule. Rule is made returnable forthwith. AGP waives service. We have heard both the sides finally at the stage of admission.

2. These are six different writ petitions which have been clubbed by the administrative order for being tried by the same Court, since all these petitioners are stated to be blood relatives through paternal side and are impugning the judgments and orders passed in their respective matters by the respondent - scheduled tribe certificate scrutiny committee (hereinafter "committee") whereby, in a proceeding under section 7 of the Maharashtra Act No. XXIII of 2001, their tribe certificates of Thakur scheduled tribe have been confiscated and cancelled.

3. Though the impugned judgments and orders are separate, all these petitioners being blood relatives and have been relying upon same genealogy and evidence, at the joint request of the parties and in order to avoid rigmarole, we propose to decide these petitions by this common order.

4. The chquered history leading to these petitions may be summarized as under:-

(a) Petitioner Sambhaji Dangal Wagh was issued with a certificate of validity first in point of time amongst the entire famil