JUDGMENT

The petitioner has approached this Court being aggrieved by Exts.P1, P5, P10, and P11 whereby the KIRTADS, the Screening Committee, the Scrutiny Committee, and the Government have held that the petitioner and his family do not belong to the Hindu Sambava Community, which is a Scheduled Caste Community. The petitioner applied for the Common Entrance Examination for admission to the five-year LLB Course during 2018-19 under the SC quota. Doubting the caste status of the petitioner, the matter was referred to KIRTADS for a report. KIRTADS submitted its report on 17.08.2018. The Screening Committee thereafter passed orders on 31.03.2018 rejecting the claim of the petitioner under the SC quota. The petitioner filed a review petition before the Government on 04.02.2019 under the provisions of Act 11 of 1996. The Government referred the matter to the Scrutiny Committee, which heard the petitioner on 28.05.2019. The Screening Committee rej