https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=307353 The Kerala (Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes) Regulation of Issue of Community Certificates Act, 1996 was treated as a complete code for issuing community certificates, with the competent authority alone empowered to decide applications and the statutory appeal and further judicial review remaining the prescribed remedies. The Lok Ayukta's role under its enabling law was limited to investigating maladministration and communicating grievances; it could not bypass the special procedure or issue a binding direction to grant a certificate. Where a special enactment occupies the field, a general supervisory forum cannot supplant that mechanism. Accordingly, a direction for issuance of the community certificate was beyond jurisdiction and was quashed. en-us Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 07 Apr 2023 15:19:57 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=307353 The Kerala (Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes) Regulation of Issue of Community Certificates Act, 1996 was treated as a complete code for issuing community certificates, with the competent authority alone empowered to decide applications and the statutory appeal and further judicial review remaining the prescribed remedies. The Lok Ayukta's role under its enabling law was limited to investigating maladministration and communicating grievances; it could not bypass the special procedure or issue a binding direction to grant a certificate. Where a special enactment occupies the field, a general supervisory forum cannot supplant that mechanism. Accordingly, a direction for issuance of the community certificate was beyond jurisdiction and was quashed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=307353