JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Writ Appeal filed under Clause 15 of Letters Patent to set aside the impugned order dated 15.09.2021 made in W.M.P.No.20619 of 2021 in W.P.No.19308 of 2021.)

S. Vaidyanathan, J.

1. This Writ Appeal has been filed, challenging the interim order dated 15.09.2021, passed by the learned Single Judge in W.M.P.No.20619 of 2021 in W.P.No.19308 of 2021, in and by which, the operation of G.O.Ms.No.106, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (PR-1) Department dated 03.09.2021, relating to allotment of Kolathur Panchayat President post to ST General, has been stayed.

2. For the sake of brevity, the parties are referred to by their nomenclature in the Writ Petition as “Writ Petitioner and the Government” in this order.

Brief Facts in nutshell:

3. It was averred by the Writ Petitioner that there were wrong particulars provided in respect of Census of Schedule Caste (SC) / Schedule Tribe (ST) and voters, residing in Kolathur Panchayat, with the sole intention to allot the post of President to Schedule Tribe. The population of ST has been wrongly shown as 270 with 175 voters, whereas the population of SC was indicated as 1027 with 1041 voters, by suppressing the actual population of SC