Bombay High Court Quashes Scrutiny Committee Order Invalidating Scheduled Tribe Certificate for 'Raj' Community — Failure to Consider Pre-Constitution Documents and Affinity Test Misapplication. The Court held that the Scrutiny Committee must consider all documentary evidence, especially pre-Constitution records, and cannot rely solely on the affinity test to reject a tribe claim under the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950.
27 Jul 2017The petitioner, Bhagyashree Vinod Kelkar, a student, challenged the order dated 20.7.2002 passed by the Committee for Scrutiny and Verification of Tri...
