( 1 ) ORDER :- The petitioner who has passed the Higher Secondary Examination (Standard XII) with Science Stream in the month of March 1985 has filed this petition and prayed for a writ and/or direction or order directing the respondents to give admission to the petitioner for Instrumentation and Control Branch in the reserved quota reserved for Socially and Educationally Backward Class (hereinafter referred to as s. E. B. Class ). The petition has been subsequently amended and a further prayer has been made for a writ, direction or order quashing and setting aside the order dt. 23-1-1986 (Annexure h) whereby respondent No. 3 has held that the petitioner did not belong to S. E. B. Class and, therefore, cancelled the certificate (Annexure a) issued by the Social Welfare Officer, Ahmedabad District.

( 2 ) THERE is no dispute that if the petitioner is found to belong to the S. E. B. Class, he will get admission in the reserved quota for Instrumentation and Control Course at Bhavnagar for which he has shown his first preference. The question that arises for my consideration, therefore, is whether the benefit of S. E. B. Class/caste is available to the petitioner in the fa