ORDER

Sharad Kumar Sharma, J. - Brief facts, which engages consideration in the present writ petition are, that the petitioner has agitated his grievance being aggrieved as against the impugned order dated 17.12.2020, which was passed by respondent no.3, by virtue of which, his application for the grant of caste certificate has been rejected.

2. If the reason for rejection of the application of the petitioner are taken into consideration, primarily, the reason for denial to issue the caste certificate has been on a sole ground, that the petitioner has not placed any evidence on record to show that he was the resident of the State of Uttarakhand or within its territory prior to 1985. The other facts, which are apparent from the record of writ petition are that the petitioner has come up with the case, that the petitioner and his predecessors stood settled in the village called as Aloo Farm, Hempur Ismail, Kashipur, District Udham Singh Nagar, where they have got their landed property and at the time of creation of the State of Uttarakhand, they were already the residents of the State, apart from the fact that the petitioner himself has taken birth on 08-01-1999, and accordingly based