The Telangana High Court on Friday dismissed a writ appeal challenging the cancellation of caste certificates issued to a man and his six children, noting that the petition was not maintainable in the first instance.

The appellants, Chouhan Devanand and his four sons and two daughters, had sought the court’s intervention to overturn an order dated May 28, 2025, issued by the Adilabad district collector, which cancelled their Scheduled Tribe (ST) – Lambada caste certificates. The writ appeal was filed against a single judge’s order dated October 29, 2025, which had dismissed the original writ petition and directed the District Legal Scrutiny Committee, Adilabad, to verify their social status.

A division bench of Justices Moushumi Bhattacharya and Gadi Praveen Kumar, while dismissing the p

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