The High Court held that a writ petition seeking the grant of caste certificates is maintainable only if no alternative efficacious statutory remedy is available. In the present case, as the applicant was seeking caste certificates for her children born in a marriage between SC and General category parties, the order rejecting the application was prescribed to be appealable before the State Level Committee under Clause 7 of the guidelines dated 09.09.2015. Since an alternative statutory remedy was available, the High Court held that the petitioner cannot bypass the jurisdiction of the said appellate authority and thus dismissed the writ petition, granting liberty to file the statutory appeal.