JUDGMENT :

Shaffique, J.

Writ Appeal No.1954/15 is filed by the 3rd respondent in WP (C) No. 11146/2009 and Writ Appeal No. 2470/15 is filed by the respondents 1 and 2 in the said writ petition challenging judgment dated 20/3/2015.

2. The 1st respondent in the appeals filed writ petition seeking to quash Exts.P2, P8, P9 and P10 and for a direction to the 3rd respondent to reinstate the petitioner in service with all consequential benefits and certain other reliefs were also sought for.

3. The short facts involved in the writ petition would disclose that the 1st respondent in the appeals, who is hereinafter referred to as the petitioner, claimed to belong to Bakuda Community which is recognized as a Scheduled Caste Community. It is stated that at the time of admission to the school, his community status was entered as Mala Araya which is a Scheduled Tribe Community. The entry regarding the caste status came to be revealed in the caste certificates of the petitioner and his brothers. According to the petitioner, he or his siblings were not aware of the mistake. It was at the time of their marriage it was known that they belong to Scheduled Caste community as members from the Mala Araya r