ORAL JUDGMENT

Date : 18-04-2023 The present writ petition has been filed seeking quashing of the order dated 30.05.2015 passed by the Circle OfÏcer, Chainpur, District- Bhabhua i.e. the respondent no. 8, whereby and whereunder the caste certificates of the petitioners have been cancelled, which were issued by him on

28.08.2014.

2. The short point raised by the learned counsel for the petitioners is that first of all the aforesaid order dated 30.05.2015, is an ex-parte order and no opportunity of hearing was granted to the petitioners before passing of the same and secondly, after rendering of the Judgment by the Hon’ble Apex Court in the case of Kumari Madhuri Patil & Anr. vs. Additional Commissioner, Tribal Development & Ors. reported in (1994)6 SCC 241, directing all the State Governments to constitute a Caste Scrutiny Committee, whereafter, in the State of Bihar also a Caste Scrutiny Committee has been constituted, the Circle OfÏcer, or for that matter any state authorities are precluded from cancelling the caste certificate of the petitioners, and in case the authorities are of the view that the same warrants cancellation, they have to approach the Bihar State Caste Scrutiny Comm