K. VINOD CHANDRAN, J.

1. The petitioner is aggrieved with the decision of the Scrutiny Committee constituted under the Kerala (Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes) Regulation of Issue of Community Certificates Act, 1996, produced at Ext. P8 in the above writ petition. The petitioner claims Scheduled Caste status and asserts his belonging to the Kanakkan community, on the basis of such community status of his father. The petitioner admittedly is the son of an inter-caste marriage, the petitioner's father as is evident from Ext. P1 was certified as belonging to Hindu-Kanakkan community, which is a Scheduled Caste as per the Constitution (Scheduled Caste) Order, 1950, within the State of Kerala. The petitioner's father's SSLC certificate also evidences the same as is seen from Ext. P2, is the contention. The petitioner obtained a job in the Cochin University of Science and Technology, on the strength of the claim raised with respect to his belonging to the Scheduled Caste community. On an enquiry being initiated by the Government as to the veracity of the Scheduled Caste claim, the matter was referred to the Kerala Institute for Research, Training and Development Studies (KIR