S. Sankarasubban, J.

The above Writ Appeal is filed by the petitioner in O.P.No.22795 of 1999 against the judgment dismissing the Original Petition. Appellant applied for admission to the Medical/ Engineering course invoking Clause 5.3.4(e) of the Prospectus, which states that the children of intercaste marriage couples, who claim reservation under SC/ST quota should apply in the application form intended to SC/ST candidates and should produce the SC/ST certificate from the concerned Tahsildar in the prescribed form provided on the body of the application form in addition to the intercaste marriage certificate. According to the prospectus, the claim to get the benefit of SC/ST will be subject to verification and clearance by the Screening Committee constituted by the Government. The community certificate should clearly specify that the candidate himself belongs to SC/ST. According to the appellant/ petitioner, her father belongs to Nair Community and her mother belongs to Panan Community, which is a Scheduled Caste Community.

2. Appellant applied in the prescribed form and produced necessary certificates from the Tahsildar showing that she belongs to Scheduled Castes. The