ORDER :

1. The petitioner has filed this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India being aggrieved by the order/report dated 22.06.2009 (Annexure P/1) passed by the Caste Certificate High Level Scrutiny Committee (for short ‘the Scrutiny Committee’) – Respondent No.4, whereby the caste certificate of the petitioner claiming to be ‘Halba’ has been invalidated.

2. Brief facts of the case, as projected by the petitioner, are that the petitioner who basically belongs to Mehdiwada Waraseoni, District Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh genuinely belongs to Scheduled Tribe "Halba" as declared by His Excellency the President of India under Article 342 read with Article 366(25) of the Constitution of India. He passed his Higher Secondary examination in the year 1991 from Waraseoni. The Government Secondary School Waraseoni, Balaghat issued a transfer certificate (Annexure P/2) to the petitioner dated 24/01/1998 showing status of the petitioner as "Halba" Scheduled Tribe. A caste certificate (Annexure P/2) was also issued to the petitioner by the Naib Tehsildar, Rajnandgaon which indicates as "Halba". On the basis of caste certificate issued by the Naib Tehsildar, Rajnandgaon, the petitio