https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=174805 Article 342 makes the Presidential specification of Scheduled Tribes conclusive, subject only to parliamentary amendment, and courts cannot add to, subtract from, or substitute entries in the notified list. Evidence may be used only to verify whether a community falls within the existing notification. The English text of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Order, 1950 is authoritative under Article 348(1)(b), so a mistranslated Hindi version cannot expand Scheduled Tribe status. On that basis, Lohar could not be treated as a Scheduled Tribe or as synonymous with Lohara/Lohra, because the notified entry remained Lohara/Lohra. en-us Fri, 02 Feb 1996 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 21 Oct 2015 11:21:07 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=174805 Article 342 makes the Presidential specification of Scheduled Tribes conclusive, subject only to parliamentary amendment, and courts cannot add to, subtract from, or substitute entries in the notified list. Evidence may be used only to verify whether a community falls within the existing notification. The English text of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Order, 1950 is authoritative under Article 348(1)(b), so a mistranslated Hindi version cannot expand Scheduled Tribe status. On that basis, Lohar could not be treated as a Scheduled Tribe or as synonymous with Lohara/Lohra, because the notified entry remained Lohara/Lohra. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 02 Feb 1996 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=174805