nutshell, relating to the question of issuance of the Scheduled Caste Certificate in favour of the children of the parents of the origin of Pondicherry State on the date of the notification of the Presidential Order, migrants from other States on the date of the said notification means whether both the parents, on the date of the said notification should have been born and continue to reside in Pondicherry, as it is advocated on the part of the respondents here or in the case of any one of the parents whose origin is from outside the Pondicherry limits, whether the claim of Scheduled Caste Certificate should be rejected in toto and whether such rejection is reasonable within the meaning of Articles 14 and 15 of the Constitution of India, or whether either father or mother of the same Adi Dravida community hails from outside the territorial limits of Pondicherry and by virtue of marriage with the other spouse comes and lives at Pondicherry and gives birth to children and in such event by virtue of the other spouse being an origin of Union Territory of Pondicherry whether the children born to them in spite of having been born to parents of Adi Dravida community should forego their right to get a Scheduled Caste Certificate just for the simple reason that it is the origin of the father that would only be taken as a criteria and not the mother as per the impugned memorandum and in such event, such criteria fixed by the Government interpreting the G.O. and superseding to the earlier memorandum issued dated
