Retired Central Excise Officer Gets Relief as Revenue Barred from Acting on Caste Certificate Allegations

M.Karuppanan Vs Tamil Nadu State Level Scrutiny Committee – II (Madras High Court)

Conclusion: A retired Central Excise officer was provided relief  by quashing an order that community doubt on the validity of his caste certificate from 1977, even though it was initially evident that assessee belonged to the backward class rather than the ST Community and assessee must file an undertaking that his children would not claim any benefit based on his caste certificate.

Held: Assessee had joined the Central Excise Department in 1978 based on a

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