HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - A No. - 15274 of 2025 Court No. - 34 HON'BLE VIKAS BUDHWAR, J. 1. Heard Sri Ajeet Sharma (A/A 0794/2021), advocate holding brief of Shri Santosh Dwivedi, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Gaurav Singh, learned Standing Counsel, who appears for State-respondents as well as Shri Siddharth Singhal, counsel for respondent no. 2. 2. The case of the writ petitioner is that she belongs to reserved category and is a permanent resident of Varanasi and advertisement came to be published bearing No. 05-Examination/2022 for recruitment on the post of Mukhya Sevika, the writ petitioner claims to have appeared in the said selection and according to the writ petitioner, she has been provisionally selected, however, with regard to the caste certificate in question, the claim of the writ petitioner is that the same is manual and not digital. The writ petitioner was required to submit a digital caste certificate to which the writ petitioner took time, however, the writ petitioner submits that digital certificate might take some time but in the meantime, the Commission may verify the caste certificate which is manual in nature. 3. To such a submission, Shri Siddharth Singhal has no objection, according to him, as per the task entrusted to the Commission the verification of the certificate is to be done of-course in order to verify the fact whether the same is genuine or not and in usual course, the same would also be verified. 4. Considering the submissions of the rival parties as well as stand taken by them, the writ petition is being disposed off requiring the Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission through its Secretary to put ball Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Santosh Dwivedi Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C., Siddharth Singhal Ms. Himadri Gaur .....Petitioner(s) State Of Uttar Pradesh And Another .....Respondent(s) in motion so as to get the verification of the caste certificate done at the earliest. 5. Needless to point out that this Court has no reason to disbelieve that the same shall be verified strictly in accordance with law. 6. With the aforesaid observation, the writ petition is disposed off. October 10, 2025 A. Prajapati WRIA No. 15274 of 2025 2 (Vikas Budhwar,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHUTOSH KUMAR PRAJAPATI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad