admitted on 18th July, 1969, his name appeared in the admission register at serial No.1222 and his caste was shown as "Munurwar". However, the same appears to have been subsequently corrected as "Mannerwarlu". In the said register the petitioner's name appears at serial No.1409 and he was admitted in the 6th standard on 7th July, 1970. His caste was shown as "Munurwar". It is, thus, obvious that the Petitioner as well as his brother were shown to belong to the Munerwad / Munerwar caste when they were admitted in the primary as well as secondary schools and these admissions were prior to the Presidential Order of 1976. The caste of the Petitioner's brother was subsequently altered in the secondary shcool register on the basis of the caste certificate issued after he had left the school. Till the petitioner as well as his brother completed the primary and secondary education they were shown to belong to "Munurwar/Munurwad" caste. The Government of Maharashtra, by Government Resolution dated 15th of June, 1995, has recognizd "Munnerwad/Munnerwar" as Special Backward Class and thus it is a different caste from the "Mannerwarlu, Scheduled Tribe". These school extracts, which came before the respondent No.5 committee in the course of home inquiry, were rightly considered and the petitioner's tribes claim was turned down. The committee considered all the documents submitted by the Petitioner and recorded a finding that after the Presidential Order of 1976 was issued the Petitioner and his brother obtained caste certificates as belonging to the "Mannerwarlu" Scheduled Tribe and these certificates were issued in a very casual manner by the concerned officers. These certificates by themselves could not prove the social status of the petitioner and the school admission register extract, which was placed before the committee, was the primary evidence which indicated that the petitioner belongs to the Munurwar caste. The fact finding exercise done by the committee on the basis of
