Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court has upheld the decision to cancel Scheduled Tribe (ST) caste certificates issued to a Lambadi family that migrated from Maharashtra to the then undivided Andhra Pradesh in 1956, stating that the cancellation was legally valid.

The case originated from a complaint filed by the district president of the All India Banjara Seva Sangh. Acting on the complaint, the district collector revoked the ST caste validation certificates of Chauhan Devanand’s family of Adilabad, prompting them to approach the High Court.

A single-judge bench had earlier upheld the collector’s order, leading the family members to file an appeal. Hearing the appeal, a division bench comprising Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya and Justice Gadi Praveen Kumar delivered its verdict affirming

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