Rajasthan High Court - Jodhpur
Irfan Raza vs State Of Rajasthan (2025:Rj-Jd:38448) on 28 August, 2025
Author: Rekha Borana
Bench: Rekha Borana
[2025:RJ-JD:38448]
HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT
JODHPUR
S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 16246/2025
1. Irfan Raza S/o Late Shakil Ahmed, Aged About 47 Years,
R/o G-5/112, Gali No. 3, Sonia Vihar, V/p- Karawal Nagar,
Seelam Pur, North East Delhi, Delhi. Working As Assistant
Professor (Urdu) Guest Faculty Under Vidya Sambal Yojna
At Govt. Girls College Ladnoo, Didwana- Kuchaman,
Rajasthan.
2. Dr. Neha Pradhan S/o Sh. Surendra Prasad Pradhan, Aged
About 45 Years, R/o 253, Gurunanak Housing Mala Phatak
Kota, Rajasthan. Working As Assistant Professor (History)
Guest Faculty Under Vidya Sambal Yojna At Govt. College
Talera, Bundi, Rajasthan.
3. Gopal Choudhary, Aged About 40 Years, R/o Vinayak
Nagar, Jaipur Road, Kankarda Bhonabay, Ajmer,
Rajasthan. Working As Assistant Professor (History) Guest
Faculty Under Vidya Sambal At Govt. Girls College Sarwar,
Ajmer, Rajasthan.
4. Dr. Atul Kumar Shrivastava S/o Awadhesh Kumar
Shrivastava, Aged About 58 Years, R/o 172, Ward No. 3,
Arya Samaj Mandir Road, Indra Colony, Chhabra, Baran,
Rajasthan. Working As Assistant Professor (History) Guest
Faculty Under Vidya Sambal At Govt. College Chhabra,
Baran, Rajasthan.
5. Dr. Sulakshana Sharma W/o Rakesh Sharma, Aged About
54 Years, R/o 5-C-14, Talvandi, Kota, Rajasthan. Working
As Assistant Professor (Sanskrit Lit.) Guest Faculty Under
Vidya Sambal Yojna At Govt. College Talera, Bundi,
Rajasthan.
6. Dr. Mukta Pandey W/o Dr. Shashi Bhushan Sharan
Pandey, Aged About 48 Years, R/o H. No. 79, Saket Nagar
Colony, Jhalawar, Rajasthan. Working As Assistant
Professor (Botany) Guest Faculty Under Vidya Sambal
Yojna At Govt. Girls College Jhalawar, Rajasthan.
7. Dr. Ritu Verma D/o Rooplal Verma, Aged About 43 Years,
R/o 675, Mahaveer Nagar Ii, Kota, Rajasthan. Working As
Assistant Professor (Hindi Lit.) Guest Faculty Under Vidya
Sambal Yojna At Govt. College Talera, Bundi, Rajasthan.
8. Mukesh Chand Khateek S/o Lallu Ram Khateek, Aged
About 44 Years, R/o V.p.o - Dantiya, Kathumar, Alwar,
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Rajasthan. Working As Assistant Professor (History) Guest
Faculty Under Vidya Sambal Yojna At Govt. Girls College
Kathumar, Alwar, Rajasthan.
----Petitioners
Versus
1. State Of Rajasthan, Through Secretary, Department Of
Higher Education, Secretariat, Jaipur, (Raj.)
2. Commissioner, College Education, Shiksha Sankul, J.l.n.
Marg, Jaipur, (Raj.)
3. The Principal, Govt. Bangur College Didwana- Kuchaman,
Rajasthan.
4. The Principal, Govt. College Bundi, Rajasthan.
5. The Principal, Govt. Girls College Sarwar, Ajmer,
Rajasthan.
6. The Principal, Govt. College Chhabra, Baran, Rajasthan.
7. The Principal, Govt. Pg College Jhalawar, Rajasthan.
8. The Principal, Gori Devi Govt. Girls College, Alwar,
Rajasthan.
----Respondents
For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Almas Khanam
For Respondent(s) : Ms. Lata Ladrecha for
Mr. S.S. Ladrecha, AAG
HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE REKHA BORANA
Order
28/08/2025
1. The present writ petition has been filed laying a challenge to
advertisements dated 01.07.2025 & 02.07.2025 for the
recruitment of Guest Faculties.
2. At the very inception, learned counsel for the petitioners, on
instructions, seeks permission to withdraw the present writ
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petition qua petitioner Nos.2 to 8, all of them being pertaining to
Jaipur jurisdiction.
3. In view of the submission made, permission as sought for is
granted. The present writ petition is dismissed qua petitioner
Nos.2 to 8 with liberty to them to approach the appropriate forum/
Bench.
4. Now, the present writ petition therefore survives only qua
petitioner No.1 i.e. Irfan Raza.
5. Counsel for the petitioners submits that the issue rests
covered by the judgment passed by a Co-ordinate Bench of this
Court at Jaipur in Ram Chaturvedi & Ors. Vs. State of
Rajasthan & Ors.; S.B. Civil Writ Petition No.1474/2023
(decided on 28.08.2023).
6. The judgment of Ram Chaturvedi (supra) was further
assailed by the respondents before the Division Bench of this
Court at Jaipur by way of a special appeal being D.B. Special
Appeal Writ No.903/2023; State of Rajasthan Vs. Ram
Chaturvedi and other connected matters wherein vide order
dated 17.10.2024, following interim order was passed:
"After hearing learned counsel for the parties, we are inclined
to stay the effect and operation of the direction contained in
Para11 of the impugned order only to the extent that the
benefit of re-engagement by preferential treatment will not be
available to those who were earlier discontinued as Guest
Faculty and were not working as Guest Faculty when the
occasion arise for re-engagement and that this preferential
treatment would be available only in the matter of engagement
of Guest Faculty in the Institution wherein they have been
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engaged and actually working and not in any other Institution.
Rest of directions will remain operative."
7. In view of the above ratio, the present writ petition is
disposed of qua petitioner No.1 with a permission to him to file
an application to participate in the fresh recruitment process
sought to be initiated vide advertisements dated 01.07.2025 &
02.07.2025.
8. On the said application being filed, the respondents shall be
under an obligation to consider the candidature of the petitioner,
keeping into consideration his appointment as Guest Faculty in the
previous session and further, the guidelines as issued in Ram
Chaturvedi (supra).
9. Stay petition and pending applications, if any, stand
disposed of.
(REKHA BORANA),J
9-KashishS/-
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