Per Sheel Nagu, J. -- 1. This writ appeal under section 2 of the Madhya Pradesh (Uchcha Nyalaya Ki Khand Peeth Ko Appeal) Adhiniyam assails the final order dated 21.3.2012 in Writ Petition No.6378/2011 whereby while dismissing the writ petition, the learned Single Judge has upheld the findings of the Caste Scrutiny Committee (CSC for brevity) whereby the caste certificate of the petitioner-appellant has been cancelled and direction issued to take appropriate action.

2. The facts of the case, in nutshell, are that as per the appellant his forefathers had migrated from Pakistan to India in 1947 and had settled down in village Bandala at Amritsar in Punjab where they lived for four years and thereafter shifted from village Bandala to village Marki Mahu at Guna in Madhya Pradesh on or about 1950. The appellant was born in Madhya Pradesh while his father was living in village Marki Mahu at Guna in 1965. In his school record and other records of the Government, the appellant showed himself either a Sikh, Punjabi or Hindu and never represented himself as ‘Sansi’, a caste recognised as Scheduled Caste both in Punjab and in Madhya Pradesh. A few months before declaration of election